[Mailman-Users] Can You Delete A Message From an Archive?

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:34:03AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "JF" == Jim Fannin <Jim_Fannin at aotx.uscourts.gov> writes:
> 
>     JF> We have a unique circumstance in which a mail message was
>     JF> posted, approved and sent to a list which turned out to have
>     JF> erroneous information in it.  Management would like to remove
>     JF> the message from the archive which is public. Anyone know how
>     JF> to do this without killing the archive?
> 
> Just manually edit the message out of the .mbox file and re-run
> bin/arch.  Take care when you edit .mbox though; you want to remove
> the envelope-from header of the offending message too.


Speaking of archives, mine still aren't working.  Messages appear to be
being archived, but /opt/mailman/archives/private/<list>/index.html is
empty.  It's there, but it's zero bytes.

The files present in my private archives directory are:

/opt/mailman/archives/private:
ba-b5/  ba-b5.mbox/

/opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5:
2001-June/  2001-June.txt  2001-May/  2001-May.txt  database/  index.html

/opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5/2001-June:
000000.html  author.html  date.html  index.html@  subject.html
thread.html

/opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5/2001-May:
000000.html  author.html  date.html  index.html@  subject.html
thread.html

/opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5/database:

/opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5.mbox:
2001-May/  2001-May.txt  database/  index.html

/opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5.mbox/2001-May:
000000.html  author.html  date.html  index.html@  subject.html
thread.html

/opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5.mbox/database:


What's supposed to generate the index.html page, and how can I fix
it?  Are the database directories supposed to be empty?  Are these two
items connected?

I'm using Mailman 2.0.5, Python-2.1, and Postfix, on a Linux-2.4 system.




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