A side effect of doing this is that the re-generated html files are not necessarily referenced as they used to be. Thus if there are other references to these files (such as this one: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-July/021154.html) they will be incorrect/invalid after a re-arch.
-Jim P. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Carnes > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
