[Mailman-Users] [2.x] Removing old archives

[Jon Carnes]

The procedure is well documented in the archives:
   edit ~mailman/archives/private/<listname.mbox>/<listname.mbox>

When you edit this file delete any emails that you wish to remove from
the archives (normally folks delete the early emails at the beginning of
the file).

For versions before Mailman 2.1 you will need to backup and delete the
existing html archive files.
   cd ~mailman/archives/private/
   mkdir  <listname>.bak
   cp -a  <listname>/*  <listname>.bak
   rm -rf <listname>/*

Recreate the html archive files
   ~mailman/bin/arch <listname>

Note: the arch command for Mailman version 2.1 has the option "--wipe"
which if used will automagically remove the old archive files before
re-archiving the mail.

Note 2: archiving takes a long time and a lot of cpu.  If you have a lot
of mail in the archives be patient.  

HtH - Jon Carnes

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 03:33, Luigi Rosa wrote:
> Hello,
> what is the correct procedure to trmove sole old archive files of a list?
> 
> If I simply delete the files, will Mailman take care to rebuild the indexes?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Luigi
> 
> 
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