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@@ -62,11 +62,25 @@ ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 2
#
DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_VOLUME_FREQUENCY = 1
+# These variables control the use of an external archiver. Normally if
+# archiving is turned on (see ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX about and the list's archive*
+# attributes) the internal Pipermail archiver is used. This is the default if
+# both of these variables are set to false. When either is set, the value
+# should be a shell command string which will get passed to os.popen(). This
+# string can contain ${listname}s for dictionary interpolation. The name of
+# the list being archived will be substituted for this.
+#
+# Note that if you set one of these variables, you should set both of them
+# (they can be the same string). This will mean your external archiver will
+# be used regardless of whether public or private archives are selected.
+PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 0
+PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 0
+
+
# Set this to 1 to enable gzipping of the downloadable archive .txt file.
# Note that this is /extremely/ inefficient, so an alternative is to just
# collect the messages in the associated .txt file and run a cron job every
-# night to generate the txt.gz file. There isn't any built-in Mailman support
-# for this yet though.
+# night to generate the txt.gz file. See cron/nightly_gzip for details.
GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES = 0