[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#203746: marked as done (mailman: 404 error for nonexistent mail archives)

Thu Dec 8 22:18:55 UTC 2005

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Package: mailman
Version: 2.0.11-1woody5
Severity: normal

If I create a list for which nothing has been posted to yet, a link to the
mail archives is provided which 404s.  This makes it look like there is a
problem with the server when in fact it is perfectly correct.  It would be
useful to have a 'no messages in this archive' page sent rather than the
404, which causes user confusion.

Theo

-- System Information
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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 23:11:06 +0100
From: Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu>
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Subject: Bug#203746 is done
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Hi,

You reported this bug to Debian about Mailman:

> If I create a list for which nothing has been posted to yet, a link
> to the mail archives is provided which 404s.  This makes it look
> like there is a problem with the server when in fact it is perfectly
> correct.  It would be useful to have a 'no messages in this archive'
> page sent rather than the 404, which causes user confusion.

This seems to be the case now; a new list's archives is a page that
says:

  No messages have been posted to this list yet, so the archives are
  currently empty. You can get more information about this list.

I'm not sure since when this is the case.

Thank you for your bug report.

-- 
Lionel