Editing the Mailing List Archives
Friday January 09, @11:12AM, by Clayton Carter
Subject : editing mailman archives
from the keeping-everything-kosher dept.
Summary :
Recently, we had to remove someone's name from the mailing list archives. This is how we did it.
Text :
Mailman stores the archives for each list in a seperate mbox formatted mailbox. These are periodically used to update and/or regenerate the HTML browsable archives. The generation first happens in a `private' space and is then moved to a `public' space. This is all handled automatically, but it should be noted that the whole [HTML version of the] archive must be deleted before regeneration.

# change to the mailman working directory
cd /usr/local/mailman
# open list `database' and
# edit, add, delete messages
vi archives/private/<list>.mbox/<list>.mbox (sic)
# remove the HTML version of the archive
rm -rf archives/private/<list>/*
# rebuild the HTML version of the archive
bin/arch <list>
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