[Mailman-Users] Editing Archives

[Richard Barrett]

At 08:01 12/02/2003, Andy Woolley wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I need to edit the archive of one of my lists to remove some text that a
>user is worried will be found on Search Engines.
>
>I've looked and see that this feature is to be added to Version 3.0 and
>possibly to version 2.1.
>
>My question is: Did this feature manage to get done in the current release?
>
>If not, is there a way I can edit the archive using a text editor?
>
>Thanks very much in advance.
>Andy

An archived eamil will be in two places:

The list's UNIX mbox file:

     $prefix/archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox

The list's html archive. :

     $prefix/archives/private/<listname>/<archive-name>/<postingfilename>.html

You can edit either or both with a regular text editor. Or you can just 
edit the mbox file and use $prefix/bin/arch to rebuild the html archives. 
The second choice may chew up a fair bit of CPU time if the list concerned 
has a lost of postings.