[Mailman-Users] HowTo edit Archives by hand

[Fabien COMBERNOUS]

In the same subject, i don't know how to generate an index.html. My
index.htlm is emply when a look http://www.mydomain/mailman/private/cvs-logs/


On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 01:44:33PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote :
> A side effect of doing this is that the re-generated html files are not
> necessarily referenced as they used to be.  Thus if there are other
> references to these files (such as this one:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-July/021154.html) they
> will be incorrect/invalid after a re-arch.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Carnes
> >
> > I think this is already in the FAQ, but just in case, here is a brief run
> > through for the 2.0.x series...
> >
> > The archives are found in:
> >   ~mailman/archives/private/
> >
> > There are two subdirectories for each list:
> >
> >   <listname>.mbox:  This directory contains one file, a text based
> >         Mailbox with all the archived messages.  This file is the
> >         *real* archive.
> >
> >   <listname> : This directory contains all the manufactured Web/text
> >         files needed to display the archived messages.  The files in
> >         this directory are all generated from the Mailbox found in the
> >         other directory.
> >
> > To edit out an email,
> >   - Take mailman off-line (stopping cron is effective for this).
> >   - Goto the Mailbox containing the archive
> >   - Edit this large file and remove the offending email
> >
> >       Note: this is a large text based file containing
> >       many emails, each stacked on top of each other
> >       inside the file.  Each email starts with a line like:
> >         "From user at domain.com  Mon Mar 12 14:23 2002"
> >
> >       There will be other lines in the email that look similar
> >       and start with "From: " (note the colon instead of a space)
> >          "From: User Name <user at domain>"
> >       These lines are header lines inside the email.
> >
> >   - Once the offending emails are edited or removed,
> >      move the files in the current web files for the archive
> >      to a backup directory and run:
> >        ~mailman/bin/arch  <listname>
> >      This will regenerate all the HTML files used by the archive.
> >   - Bring mailman back on-line (restart cron)
> >
> > Best of luck,
> >
> > Jon Carnes
> >
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