On Wednesday 12 December 2001 10:15, Joshua Gould wrote: > "Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oddly enough, this is under the Archival section of the web-admin... > > You can turn it off there. Then, if you want to remove all the old > > archives, you will need to login to the server and delete the files out > > of ~mailman/archives/private/<listname>/ > > Jon, > > If I'm understanding correctly, you are saying to visit: > > http://localhost/mailman/admin/testlist/archive > > and set "Archive messages?" to no. Correct?
Correct. > > The problem with this approach is that: > > 1.> I would have to do it for all of our lists and we have TONS. Consider it job security... or look at the utilities in ~mailman/bin/... and write a script to do it for you. > > 2.> New lists are still created with archiving on by default, so you > would need to change this for all new lists too. Edit ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (look at Defaults.py in the same directory for instructions...) and set archiving to off. While you are there, edit a few other entries that you always find yourself adjusting on new lists (or wish that admins would choose by default...) > > 3.> If this list admin is someone other than me, they can simply log in > and re-enable archiving. Change the rights on the ~mailman/archive directory so that creation of archives fails, or simply tell your admins not to turn it on, since this is really a management issue and not a technical one. Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users