Hi Antony,
On 13 November 2011 15:52, <ant...@demanuele.net> wrote: > I manage the actual mail server on a machine at home (Mac) and messages that > go to the forum are sent to e.g. hm0...@www.pharmweb.net (which is the Can I just know what mail server you run? > > John moved the site to a new virtual server in November and since then the > archives have not worked. I guess the server needs configuration so that > mail send to hm0...@www.pharmweb.net , hm0...@www.pharmweb.net etc get sent > to MHonArc for processing. What mailing list manager are you using? This makes me clear about the way lists are managed and the way archives can be stored. > The server was also set up to only accept emails sent from my machine so > that it could not be spammed (not sure if this was done using the IP address > of my machine at home?). Probably it has been configured as whitelist and blocklists rules. > I am looking for the following to be done: > > 1) Update MHonArc to current version (2.6.18) and update Perl. > 2) Update Perl - I think much of what is done is via Perl scripts > (http://www.mhonarc.org/mharc/doc/) There is ample documentation for this and I would help you doing this. > 3) Get messages to start archiving again (not sure what needs to get set up > on the server) A cron job with mhonarc can do this. Pretty straight forward way. > 4) It would also be useful if the archiving could be set up so that > superfluous message headers did not show ie only "To", "Subject", "From" and > "Date". This can be handled by tweaking things in .mrc file. > 5) Instructions on how I can modify appearance of pages. I am very poor at this. You probably need a css file and use an index.html and internally pull the mail messages. > 6) Instructions on how I filter emails according to year ie what I need to > do at the start of each year This can be achieved. > 7) Instructions on how I ensure only emails sent from my machine are > archived Mails sent to a particular list can be archived. Isnt this what you want? > 8) Brief notes to show me how to do the above so that I can maintain going > forward Sure. By the way, Are you running everything on Macintosh operating system? Regards, -- Medhamsh, hacker-@-pascal-labs International Institute of Information Technology Gachibowli Hyderabad
