I actually found the method to use bin/withlist here so that's OK. How does your script work exactly? Where do I find what I use for variables and what they are now? Almost looks like config_list might be better.
Changes made but one question - on the web based Archives page I still see an entry for the gzipp'd version but it now goes nowhere and throws a page not found. How do I get rid of that: Archive View by: Downloadable version 2014: [ Thread ] [ Subject ] [ Author ] [ Date ] [ Gzip'd Text 2 KB ] The requested URL /pipermail/skunk-works/2014.txt.gz was not found on this server. George -----Original Message----- From: Mailman-Users [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+gkasica=netwrx1....@python.org] On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 7:14 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Manually setting digest version and/or number and other questions On 02/10/2014 04:29 PM, George Kasica wrote: > I've got an existing list that I just moved to mailman and I'm seeing the digests start over obviously at v1 n1. Is there any way to set those values somehow so I don't end up duplicating things? Use bin/withlist or bin/config_list or the script at <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/set_attributes> to set the list's volume attribute to the desired volume and the list's next_digest_number to the desired number. > Also related to that when a user lipoma at the archive by date, > thread, etc. all the mail is there. If he downloads the compressed file he's telling me it only has about 4-5 messages. Haven't had time to Investigate that one for sure yet but was curious what the archive process is like. Is it run once a day or?? When the .txt.gz files are updated depends on the setting of GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES (default = No) and the running by cron of Mailman's cron/nightly_gzip. If GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES is set to yes in mm_cfg.py, the archives/private/LISTNAME/<period>.txt file will be gzipped with every list post. This is very inefficient. Our official advice in Defaults.py is # Set this to Yes to enable gzipping of the downloadable archive .txt file. # Note that this is /extremely/ inefficient, so an alternative is to just # collect the messages in the associated .txt file and run a cron job every # night to generate the txt.gz file. See cron/nightly_gzip for details. GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES = No My recommendation is to remove the cron/nightly_gzip entry from Mailman's crontab, and remove all the archives/private/LISTNAME/<period>.txt.gz files. Then the archive index will link to the .txt files which are always up to date. This actually saves space because the .txt.gz files are in addition to the .txt files which are always there. The only possible saving with the .gz files is in the serving of a smaller file from the web, but some web servers will decompress the file before sending it anyway, and the saving if any is minimal. > Lastly is there a way to scrub either email or user name out of the digest/archive process to prevent harvesting? Why are digest's a concern more than posts? The only control is ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS which only replaces '@' with ' at ' in the archives and which is Yes by default anyway. If you or your users are really concerned about harvesting, a better solution is to make the archive private so it is only accessible to list members. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/gkasica%40netwrx1.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
