On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 03:17, Kenneth Bruyninckx wrote: > Hello, > > > This one had got me baffled and after having checked both archives and > available documentation I need your help on this. > > I have, like anybody else I'm sure, from time to time some bounces on the > list. > These bounces are caused by the usual things like "admin requests", > "non-member submission" and "message longer than x Kb". > > Now my problem is with the last type. I have set a limit of 10 Kb for a > single message as some people just hit reply on a digest and do not remove > the previous discussions :-( > So I get this message in the administrative database awaiting my action. Now > the action needed is to "trim"/delete part of the mail. > > 1) why is it not possible to "edit" the message from within the webpages, > because that is where I "look" at them in the first place > There is a patch that lets you edit the message from within the web page.
By default you cannot do this, because the whole message may not be displayed. Look in your mm_cfg.py file and you will see some settings that put limits on the amount of a message that is stored for review purposes. You can set this so that it displays the whole message (which you need to do if you apply the patch mentioned above). # how many bytes of a held message post should be # displayed in the admindb web page? Use a negative # number to indicate the entire message, regardless # of size (though this will slow down rendering # those pages). ADMINDB_PAGE_TEXT_LIMIT = 4096 You can edit the held messages (without using a patch or messing with the page text limit) if you have access to the command line on the server. Add the following section to your mm_cfg.py file: # Should held messages be saved on disk as Python # pickles or as plain text? The former is more # efficient since we don't need to go through the # parse/generate roundtrip each time, but the # latter might be preferred if you want to edit # the held message on disk. #HOLD_MESSAGES_AS_PICKLES = 1 HOLD_MESSAGES_AS_PICKLES = 0 The held messages will now be saved in text files and can be found in: ~mailman/data/.. Pick your favorite command line editor, edit the held-msg-<listname> file, then approve the message via the web (note the web admin will not reflect the changes you have made in the held message). HtH - 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
