Regenerating pipermail archives

[Lindsay Haisley-2]

I've done this before but it's been a while, and I don't remember the
answer - so maybe one of you kind folks will give me the answer and save
me the research.

When editing a Mailman pipermail archive to expunge one or more posts
prior to using the arch utility to regenerate all the archive files,
what's the master file that one needs to edit?  - the listname.mbox
file, the listname.txt file or the listname.txt.gz file?

Is there a HOWTO somewhere on editing pipermail archives?

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[Mark Sapiro-3]

Lindsay Haisley wrote:
>
>When editing a Mailman pipermail archive to expunge one or more posts
>prior to using the arch utility to regenerate all the archive files,
>what's the master file that one needs to edit?  - the listname.mbox
>file, the listname.txt file or the listname.txt.gz file?


archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox


>Is there a HOWTO somewhere on editing pipermail archives?


http://wiki.list.org/x/2YA9

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[Terri Oda]

Here's the howto:

  http://wiki.list.org/x/OAB0

But the short version is you want to edit listname.mbox/listname.mbox
and then run bin/arch to regenerate the archives.  Make sure to shut
down mailman for the few minutes while you do this if you don't want to
risk missing messages.

Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> I've done this before but it's been a while, and I don't remember the
> answer - so maybe one of you kind folks will give me the answer and save
> me the research.
>
> When editing a Mailman pipermail archive to expunge one or more posts
> prior to using the arch utility to regenerate all the archive files,
> what's the master file that one needs to edit?  - the listname.mbox
> file, the listname.txt file or the listname.txt.gz file?
>
> Is there a HOWTO somewhere on editing pipermail archives?
>

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