Answering my own question, on the off-chance somebody else now or in the future cares...
On 8/29/06, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I think I want to do is leave the new/current mailing list, and > its archives, alone, and put up the old archives in my web space. (A > more aggressive approach would be to try to attach my old archives to > the beginning of the new/current archive, so everything would be in > one place. That would require a lot of reliance on Dreamhost tech > support, since I don't have access to those files/directories, and > they might not even be willing to do it.) > > So, what executables and configuration settings are key to this? I > need to run "arch", it looks like, and have a mailing list configured > that will define where it puts the resulting HTML files. Maybe also > stuff to make the page templates match the rest of the website (I did > that for the ezmlm-cgi version). And I only have to do this once > (just to convert the old archives, static, no more messages). I've made significant progress on this. I built a private copy of mailman, to run under my username (never to actually be connected to incoming email; just so that I can create and configure lists and run arch on them). The configure command I used was: ./configure --with-username=ddb --with-groupname=ddb --prefix=/home/ddb/mailman I can create a list with bin/newlist, and I can then run bin/arch and import mbox list archives, and it builds web pages that serve up just fine. I believe I need to do more to configure the list, so that for example the list name appears somewhere on the archive pages. I'm not yet sure if I should do this via command line tools, or if I need to hook it up so the list admin web pages work on this private copy of mailman. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp