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Subject: Re: MajorCool and mj_build_aliases
From: Paul Wolstenholme <wolstena @ sfu . ca>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 16:46:02 -0700
To: Bill Houle <bhoule @ sparc . sandiegoca . ncr . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199807260527.WAA15420@ssol020.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
References: <199807252200.PAA21429@beaufort.sfu.ca>

At 10:27 PM 7/25/98 -0700, Bill Houle wrote:
>Paul Wolstenholme said:
>> 
>> I have just set up Majordomo 1.9.4 and MajorCool 1.3.0.  I've setup a 
>> basic test list that works find.  The problem I am having relates to 
>> setting up archived a digested lists via MajorCool. I can't get them to
work.
>> I thought that if you included the -a and/or -d in the 
>> mj_build_aliases.arg file that mj_build_aliases would great a archived 
>> and digested list if archive and digest exist is the usr/local/majordomo 
>> directory.  Any assistance setting up archives with MajorCool would be 
>> appreciated.
>
>All lists are not automatically archived and/or digested. There must
>be some controls in place to know which are applicable; these
>controls come in the form of "archive=yes/no" and "digest=yes/no"
>keywords that have been added to Majordomo. So -a is only half the
>story. You also need a list with archive=yes set. This is evidenced 
>in the snippet: 	if (&cf_ck_bool($list,'archive') && $opt_a) {
>
The archive/digest controls do not appear to be defined in any  of the
files I have.  Would you add these to the %known_keys array in
config_parse.pl or maybe part of a patch I missed?  

>Digest support is similar, but be forewarned it probably doesn't
>work. We don't run digests at my site, so I have had no reason to
>validate the code. The whole reason mj_build_aliases is in /contrib/
>is because it hasn't been sanity-checked by enough people. If I had
>confidence that it worked for more than just me, I would make it a
>more visible component rather than buried in the /contrib/ section.
>
>--bill
> 
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