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[Volker Krause]

On Monday 26 October 2015 20:39:53 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 October 2015 13:11:17 Volker Krause wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 October 2015 12:28:57 Andre Heinecke wrote:
> > > Hi Volker (as kde-pim list admin),
> > > 
> > > I've noticed that the kde-pim mailing list does not have an
> > > accessible archive available under:
> > > 
> > > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-pim/
> > > 
> > > I've asked sysadmin's as I thought this was an Infrastructure issue
> > > but>
> > > 
> > > received the following response:
> > > > This is a known issue - archiving is not enabled for kde-pim so we
> > > > don't have anything for it.
> > > > Please contact the kde-pim list administrators, and have them
> > > > enable
> > > > archiving. If we want to catch up with old archives, that is
> > > > possible
> > > > provided someone provides an MBox of prior postings to the mailing
> > > > list.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Ben
> > > 
> > > Is there a reason why the Archive is not enabled? I find it useful
> > > some times to link to archived mails and would prefer to have it
> > > available. :-)
> > 
> > I have no idea, sorry. This is how I inherited it from Cornelius, I'm
> > just a human spam filter here ;)
> > 
> > I vaguely remember that KDE Mailman archiving was done by some
> > external service rather than the usual Mailman archive feature,
> > globally, but Ben's response sounds very different.
> 
> lists.kde.org used to be an alias for marc.info. The sysadmins had to
> change this because they could not comply with requests for removal
> (because they have no control over marc.info).
> 
> lists.kde.org URLs now either redirect to our own archives (if they
> exist) or to MARC. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim redirects to MARC.
> The problem is that the "kde-pim Archives" link points to mailman's
> standard archive location at http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-pim/.
> Unfortunately, this cannot redirect to http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim
> because "lists.kde.org is a redirector to mail.kde.org" (cyclic
> redirect).
> 
> The sysadmins suggested as correct fix to:
> <quote>
> a) Enable local archiving
> b) Populate historical postings from someone's personal archives. David
> Faure managed to sort out MarkMail with quite a few mailing lists, so I
> imagine mboxes are available with a fairly detailed history in places.
> 
> This will have to be done on a list by list basis.
> </quote>
> 
> Alternatively, do what I've done for the kdepim-users list, i.e.
> manually point to the external archive. (See
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users)

Thanks, I have done the same for kde-pim now.

regards,
Volker
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