On 3/30/22 11:21, bob B via Mailman-users wrote:
Digging into the mailman3 world, and want to check my logic...
We normally don't use archives, so I have "archive policy" set to "Do not archive this list" for our lists. However, the "archives" button is still there on the list info page, and if users go into it, they don't see anything, But they can click "start a new thread" which sends a message to the list, but since archiving is turned off, that message does not show up there. Am I understanding that correctly?
if I have "Active archivers" disabled, that hides that area from the users, correct?
You need to have hyperkitty unchecked in Active archivers to prevent the Archive button from appearing on the info page. Archive policy = Do not archive this list will prevent HyperKitty from creating an archive for that list. If there is one at, e.g., https://example.com/archives/list/list@example.com/ you can delete it and Archive policy = Do not archive this list will keep it from being recreated.
Any reason why these are separated? why have an active archiver, if archiving is turned off -OR- archives are turned on, but no active archiver?
They probably shouldn't be completely independent. If Archive policy = Do not archive this list, that should probably deactivate any Active archivers for the list, but arguably, one might want to temporarily stop archiving and then restart it without having to remember which archivers were active.
At a minimum, setting Archive policy = Do not archive this list should probably remove the Archive button from the info page.
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