Archive related

Sympa show archive both by email and web interface. In versions prior to 5.2, archives were duplicated. Mail archives were stored in the /home/sympa/expl/mylist/archives/ directory.

Web archives are accessed through the web interface (with access control), they are stored in a directory defined in “wwsympa.conf” (parameter arc_path. Version 5.2 and later use only this archive repository.

If the “config” file contains an “archive” paragraph, Sympa will manage an archive for this list.

Example:

  archive
  period week
  access private

If the archive parameter is specified, archives are accessible to users through the GET command, and the index of the list archives is provided in reply to the INDEX command (the last message of a list can be consulted using the LAST command).

period day | week | month | quarter | year

This parameter specifies how archiving is organized: by day, week, month, quarter or year. Generation of automatic list archives requires the creation of an archive directory at the root of the list directory (/home/sympa/expl/mylist/archives/), used to store these documents.

access private | public | owner | closed

This parameter specifies who is authorized to use the GET, LAST and INDEX commands.

If the config file contains a web_archive paragraph, Sympa will copy all messages distributed via the list to the queueoutgoing spool. It is intended to be used with WWSympa's HTML archive tools. This paragraph must contain at least the access parameter to control who can browse the web archive.

Example:

  web_archive
  access private
  quota 10000

The access_web_archive parameter is defined by an authorization scenario (see Authorization scenarios).

Predefined authorization scenarios are:

• access closed (view);
• access intranet (view);
• access listmaster (view);
• access owner (view);
• access private (view);
• access public (view).

quota number-of-Kbytes

This parameter specifies the disk quota for the list's web archive, in kilobytes. This parameter's default is the default_archive_quota sympa.conf parameter. If quota is exceeded, messages are no more archived and list owners are notified. When the archive reaches 95%, list owners are warnt.

“max_month” parameter specify the maximum number of archives packet created. Old month are removed when new month is created.

(Default value: cleartext)

archive_crypted_msg cleartext | decrypted

This parameter defines Sympa's behavior when archiving S/MIME encrypted messages. If set to cleartext, the original encrypted form of the message will be archived; if set to decrypted, a decrypted message will be archived. Note that this applies to both mail and web archives, and also to digests.