Anne Anderson wrote:

I have a number (about 500) of old held messages in /var/lib/mailman/data that should show up on the administrative interface of the list's website, but don't.

2 questions:

1. what determines if a file in /var/lib/mailman/data shows up in the web

interface?

The presence of an entry in lists/LISTNAME/request.pck pointing to the held message in data/ and containing other info about the message.

2. How can one reindex or rebuild the contents of /var/lib/mailman/data so

the missing data shows up?

You can't easily. There was information in the request.pck entry that is lost. The most important part is the metadata of the held message. You could probably fake it, but you would need to create a python script to do it. It would probably be easier to create a script to unpickle the heldmsg file, remove it and requeue it in the in queue as a new message to the list.