[Mailman-Users] How to protect list archives?

Make the archives private, and only subscribers will be able to log
in and see it. This is independent of whether or not the list itself
is advertised or not.
You shouldn't need to do anything unusual here. For a single list,
you should be able to go to the web admin page for the list, then go
down to the "Archiving Options" section, and click the radio button
to make the archives private as opposed to public, then click the
button at the bottom which says "Submit Your Changes".

Now, for automating this for ~830 lists, you'll probably want to do
that using a "withlist" script and a bit of Python code.

Thanks Brad, I got this suggestion privately right about the same
time you sent this one. :-)
I'll try searching the archives to see if there's a command to do
what I want, otherwise I could just input and output some config
files and run sed over them ;-)


Chris

You don't need to do anything that tricky. Just run

#! /bin/bash
file=`mktemp`
echo 'archive_private = 1' > $file
cd path/to/mailman
for list in `bin/list_lists --bare`
do bin/config_list -i $file $list
done
rm $file

to set every list's archive to private. bin/config_list -i doesn't
change anything that isn't in it's input file.

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