I'm using Mailman 2.1.14 on my congregation's website, hosted by
site5.com. We use it for a couple of dozen mailing lists, and haven't
had many troubles.
Problem 1: someone noticed that all the list archives were publicly
viewable, and even Googleable, which is a Bad Thing. So, I went into
the Mailman admin interface to turn off the archives.
In the Archiving Options page, I found the "archive_private" setting.
The description was a bit vague, but it seemed to be what I wanted,
and currently was set to "public". So, I set it to "private", and
submitted.
Problem 2: boom! The Admin interface crashed, saying
Bug in Mailman version 2.1.14
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing
of traceback and other system information has been explicitly
inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the
Mailman error logs.
Problem 3: the Mailman admin interface for this list seems to be
permanently borked. When I go back to the admin page, I'm invited to
log in, but when I do it crashes again with the above message.
Restarting Firefox (8.0.1 on OS X 10.5.8), deleting cookies, using a
completely different browser: nothing helps.
Small good news 1: the list is still processing email. Small good
news 2: the other lists' admin interfaces on this machine aren't
borked, just the two I tried setting archive_private to "private" on.
(I broke the second one so I could test whether emails were being
processed.)
So, I need help on two items:
1) How do I un-bork those two mailing lists, without losing all of
the list settings (especially the list of members)?
One note: since this is a shared server, my account is nailed down
pretty tightly, and I'm pretty sure I don't even have access to the
main mailman directories. So, I'll probably need to pass instructions
on to the hosting company's tech support.
2) How can I keep the public from seeing these archives? In truth we
don't need them even privately, so either making them private or
getting rid of them completely would be fine by me.
Of course, if the answer is "set archive_private to private", then I
need help on a third item:
3) How can I debug Mailmain's problem with the archive_private setting?
Many thanks,
Dan
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Daniel T. Griscom gris...@suitable.com
Suitable Systems http://www.suitable.com/
1 Centre Street, Suite 204 (781) 665-0053
Wakefield, MA 01880-2400
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