I think this is already in the FAQ, but just in case, here is a brief run
through for the 2.0.x series...
The archives are found in:
~mailman/archives/private/
There are two subdirectories for each list:
<listname>.mbox: This directory contains one file, a text based
Mailbox with all the archived messages. This file is the
*real* archive.
<listname> : This directory contains all the manufactured Web/text
files needed to display the archived messages. The files in
this directory are all generated from the Mailbox found in the
other directory.
To edit out an email,
- Take mailman off-line (stopping cron is effective for this).
- Goto the Mailbox containing the archive
- Edit this large file and remove the offending email
Note: this is a large text based file containing
many emails, each stacked on top of each other
inside the file. Each email starts with a line like:
"From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 12 14:23 2002"
There will be other lines in the email that look similar
and start with "From: " (note the colon instead of a space)
"From: User Name <user@domain>"
These lines are header lines inside the email.
- Once the offending emails are edited or removed,
move the files in the current web files for the archive
to a backup directory and run:
~mailman/bin/arch <listname>
This will regenerate all the HTML files used by the archive.
- Bring mailman back on-line (restart cron)
Best of luck,
Jon Carnes
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:22 am, Phil Greenwood wrote:
> I am brand new at this and am setting up a mail list. I have run into a
> problem that may be my stupidity, but I can't figure it out.
> If someone posts something to a mail list that is off (rude, defamatory,
> illegal) I want to be able to delete the entry from the archive. I also
> want to delete all my "test messages" before I bring other people into
> the mail list. I have searched the FAQ's and although python.org FAQs
> includes an entry on removing a post (3.3), the solution depends on
> running a script or command. I have no idea how to do that or even how
> to find the archive (other than through the normal web browser
> interface). Can anyone give me some basic (noddy language) clues as to
> how to do this?
> Phil
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