Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
Caveats - at present the archives are effectively broken. It's a web server configuration issue - they're otherwise fine and being archived (and it's not filesystem or file permissions or the like). I'll get that fixed (one of the relatively higher priorities).
You might want to check ownership/permissions in /var/lib/mailman/archives/private and /var/lib/mailman/archives/public .
Examples on linuxmafia.com:
linuxmafia:/var/lib/mailman/archives# ls -l private/ total 38 drwxrwsr-x 183 list list 13312 Jul 2 03:27 conspire drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 Apr 16 15:53 conspire.mbox drwxrwsr-x 38 list list 3072 Apr 18 03:27 dvlug drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 Jun 8 2009 dvlug.mbox drwxrwsr-x 12 list list 1024 Apr 5 03:27 friday-follies drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 Sep 27 2010 friday-follies.mbox drwxrwsr-x 21 list list 1024 Jan 2 2017 linuxcare-alumni drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 Dec 1 1999 linuxcare-alumni.mbox drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 May 7 2003 mailman drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 May 7 2003 mailman.mbox drwxrwsr-x 13 list list 1024 Apr 15 03:27 revival drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 Dec 3 2007 revival.mbox drwxrwsr-x 52 list list 3072 Jul 3 03:27 sf-lug drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 Dec 29 2016 sf-lug.mbox drwxrwsr-x 25 list list 2048 Jul 1 03:27 skeptic drwxr-sr-x 2 list list 1024 Mar 22 21:09 skeptic.mbox drwxrwsr-x 14 list list 1024 Oct 5 2016 test drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 Jun 17 2010 test.mbox drwxrwsr-x 13 list list 1024 Apr 2 2006 weaselware drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 1024 May 13 2003 weaselware.mbox linuxmafia:/var/lib/mailman/archives# ls -l public/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 52 Apr 3 2009 balug-talk-archive -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/balug-talk-archive lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 57 Apr 3 2009 balug-talk-archive.mbox -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/balug-talk-archive.mbox lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 42 Apr 3 2009 conspire -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/conspire lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 47 Apr 3 2009 conspire.mbox -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/conspire.mbox lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 39 Apr 3 2009 dvlug -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/dvlug lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 44 Apr 3 2009 dvlug.mbox -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/dvlug.mbox lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data list 48 May 19 2016 friday-follies -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/friday-follies lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 44 Apr 3 2009 lg_mirrors -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/lg_mirrors lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 48 Apr 3 2009 lg_translators -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/lg_translators lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 41 Apr 3 2009 mailman -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 46 Apr 3 2009 mailman.mbox -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman.mbox lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 40 Apr 3 2009 sf-lug -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/sf-lug lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 45 Apr 3 2009 sf-lug.mbox -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/sf-lug.mbox lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 38 Apr 3 2009 test -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test lrwxrwxrwx 1 list list 43 Apr 3 2009 test.mbox -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test.mbox linuxmafia:/var/lib/mailman/archives#
The mail server has a whole lot 'o anti-spam stuff on it.
Mad props!
And how can you tell if your post was successful without being able to see the archives?
It's a pity that GNU Mailman never added to the e-mail command interface (the -request address) the ability to fetch mail batches. For example, with Sympa, you can request that the command interface e-mail you a month's worth of old archived posts in gzipped mbox format.
Here are docs for the commands you can send to the e-mail command interface: http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node41.html#a:commands
That should help with one of your to-do items:
mailman commands should work via email: subscribe/unsubscribe/help (need more complete list)
And ... well, not exactly step-by-step, but tracking fair bit of migration and testing here: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:mail_and_lists (it's not fully current ... but not that far from current either)
Coolness.
By the way, I had really good luck when I migrated the Skeptic mailing list from Johns Hopkins University's Sympa server to my Mailman server, in Octoble 2016, merging mail collected from the jhu.edu archives into Mailman's, even though the mailing list was operational at both locations for about a week or so during jhu.edu's shutdown of the mailing list. (The JHU people noticed that the listadmin no longer had a university connection, so told the subscribers they were going to shut it down imminently. I offered substitute hosting to prevent it from being lost.)
Of possible small interest: Skeptic list's FAQ that still reflects the Sympa setup (because I haven't yet had time to rewrite it): http://linuxmafia.com/pub/skeptic/skeptic_faq.html http://linuxmafia.com/pub/skeptic/list.html
The FAQ details various commands that can be sent to Sympa's e-mail command interface, including the GET command to fetch monthly archive bundles. (Again, GNU Mailman doesn't support that. Pity.)