I'll sum up the problem I was encountering, and post the fix. I note of
thanks to Mark, who worked with me offlist to get a diagnosis. As with
many things, what was wrong was blatantly obvious---after the fact.
Symptoms: On a new Mailman installation, with the htdig patch and htdig
program ins
The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said:
>
> Hank van Cleef wrote:
> >
> >Running with Firefox, I cleared the cache and all cookies, then retested
> >as a user, going from the listinfo page. This URL is:
> >http://www.mercedeslist.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes
> >
> >The archives page is:
> >http://ww
Hank van Cleef wrote:
>
>Running with Firefox, I cleared the cache and all cookies, then retested
>as a user, going from the listinfo page. This URL is:
>http://www.mercedeslist.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes
>
>The archives page is:
>http://www.mercedeslist.com/mailman/private/mercedes/
Right,
I just succeeded in blowing away my spooled mail, so no longer have
what was in this thread (yes, I can look at the mailman-users archives).
Thankyew Thunderbird, which linked to my local spool instead of the
external one it was supposed to.
Getting back to the salient points:
If the htdig acc
Hank van Cleef wrote:
>The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said:
>>
>>
>> But was the archive 'private' or 'public' (admin Archiving options)
>> before the problem started?
>>
>We're going back to Jan. 11 (when this started), and I'm trying to
>remember what I changed then. I suspect that I ran check
The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said:
>
>
> But was the archive 'private' or 'public' (admin Archiving options)
> before the problem started?
>
We're going back to Jan. 11 (when this started), and I'm trying to
remember what I changed then. I suspect that I ran check_perms around
then an fixed wha
Hank van Cleef wrote:
>The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said:
>>
>> Did you change the archive from public to private? Do you have to enter
>> the password each time (not normal) or only once (normal for a private
>> archive)?
>>
>I used bin/arch to build the archives from the mbox file, all in the
Hank van Cleef wrote:
>
>I rebuilt the archives from the list mbox file a couple of weeks ago,
>and htdig would search on it, deliver pages, and they could be viewed.
>
>This week (several days later), to view a post requires entering
>a password before viewing.
Did you change the archive from p
I have mailman 2.1.9 with the htdig patch installed. Set up to do local
search.
I rebuilt the archives from the list mbox file a couple of weeks ago,
and htdig would search on it, deliver pages, and they could be viewed.
This week (several days later), to view a post requires entering
a pas
