[Mailman-Users] removing messages from an archive (faq sugguestion barfs)

[Andrew J Cosgriff]

The FAQ sez :

8. I want to get rid of some messages in my archive. How do I do this? 
 David Rocher posts the following recipe: 


          . remove $prefix/archives/private/listname
          . edit $prefix/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox [optional]
          . run $prefix/bin/arch listname 
                $prefix/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox

I've tried this, but on the edited listname.mbox (I tried both by hand
and by using "mail") I get this error (which doesn't happen if I run
"arch" on the unedited mbox :

figuring article archives
1999-August
Processing article #0 into archives ['1999-August']
figuring article archives
1999-August
Processing article #1 into archives ['1999-August']
figuring article archives
1999-August
Processing article #2 into archives ['1999-August']
figuring article archives
1999-August
Processing article #3 into archives ['1999-August']
Updating index files for archive [1999-August]
  Date
  Subject
  Author
  Thread
Computing threaded index
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/mailman/bin/arch", line 47, in ?
    archiver.close()
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 906, in close
    self.update_dirty_archives()# Update all changed archives
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 871, in update_dirty_
archives
    self.update_archive(i)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 330, in update_archiv
e
    self.write_index_header()
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 738, in write_index_header
    self.updateThreadedIndex()
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 269, in updateThreadedIndex
    self.database.setThreadKey(self.archive, article.threadKey+'\000'+article.msgid, msgid)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 256, in setThreadKey
    self.threadIndex[key]=msgid
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 144, in __setitem__
    self.current_index = self.sorted.index(current_item)
ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list


Any ideas ?

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