I have a question about zipped list archives; the question arose from
a subscriber to one of our lists. I am running Mailman 2.1.11 on
Ubuntu from a package I built from the SourceForge source.
mailman# pwd
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME
mailman# ls -ald 2009-August*
drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 4096 2009-08-31 11:34 2009-August
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list 91577 2009-08-31 11:34 2009-August.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list 20708 2009-09-01 03:27 2009-August.txt.gz
mailman#
The .txt file looks fine, as does the .gz file.
When I go to the list admin web interface and look at the archives,
I see
August 2009: [Thread] [Subject] [Author] [Date] [GZip'd text 20KB]
That value (20KB) seems to be correct. When I click on the "[Gzip...]"
link, Firefox/Solaris gives me a text file, not a .gz file. Maybe
Firefox knows how to unzip the file, as vim does. When I click on
the same link using IE8/XP, IE8 sees the .gz suffix and asks me what
to do with the file. I save it on my desktop, and when I look at the
file, I see that it is a plain text file. It is not a gzip'd file.
Why? Thanks.
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