[Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

[Tom Neff]

"Billie R. McNamara" <billie at tnhillbillie.net> wrote:
> We are using version 2.0.8 for a moderated list.  But, we aren't able to
> edit messages before approving them (for example, to delete just one
> inappropriate word).
>
> How can we do this?

There is a FAQ entry that wants you to hand edit various spool files, but 
you can patch 2.0.8 to allow message editing.

First, increase ADMINDB_PAGE_TEXT_LIMIT in Mailman/Defaults.py from the
default of 4096 to something bigger like 32768 or -1 for unlimited (a huge
submission may render slowly in the browser!).  Then apply the patch at

	http://www.panix.com/~tneff/mailman20_edit_patch.gz

and you're in business.