[clue-admin] List archive issue - solved, sort of...

[Jeff Cann]

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On Sunday 20 February 2005 3:40 pm, Jeff Cann wrote:
> Some of you have noticed that certain CLUE email lists are not archiving
> correctly.  In fact, only clue-admin was working properly.
>
> I have received help again from the mailman-users to determine the problem.
> It was the mbox permissions were not set correctly for all lists except
> clue-admin.  Alas, it turns out that I should have run bin/check_perms
> script (in mailman distribution) after the migration.  Chalk it up to
> ignorance.
>
> Because of my gaff, the mbox files for all mail lists [except clue-admin]
> have not updated since we turned on the new server.  This means archives
> are out-of-date and it's unlikely I can retrive unarchived messages from
> mailman - but I have a question to the list about retrieval.

Luckily all of those messages not archives were in the mailman 'shunt' queue.  
So, by running bin/unshunt those messages were added to the archive mboxes.

I'm going to regenerate them tonight to fill in missing months.

Hooray for the shunt queue!
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