Jean-Philippe GIOLA wrote: > >i'm a new mailman user and I want to know why in the archives >(.../archives/public/...) there is for a list only a directory and in >that directory a txt file or a tarball file, and why sometimes there is >an another directory for the same list with a mbox extension with the >mbox file in it ??
I'm not sure I understand the question, but here's some information. The archives/public/ directory normally only contains symlinks to the respective archives/private/<listname> directories for lists with public archives. The archives/private/ directory normally contains two sub-directories per list. These are archives/private/<listname>/ and archives/private/<listname>.mbox/. The archives/private/<listname>/ directory contains the pipermail archive files for the list and the archives/private/<listname>.mbox/ directory contains a <listname>.mbox file which is a Unix mbox format file containing all the messages in the archive. This list cumulative mbox file is useful as a backup for rebuilding the archive if necessary and can be made availabe through the web interface for searching. See mm_cfg.py/Defaults.py settings for ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX and PUBLIC_MBOX. The various periodic .txt and .txt.gz files in archives/private/<listname>/ contain edited mbox files for that period. These are available from the web interface and can be used for searching. They should not be used for rebuilding the archive as the headers have been edited. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
