[ mailman-Patches-762130 ] web interface for editing archives

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Patches item #762130, was opened at 2003-06-27 18:05
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Category: list administration
Group: Mailman 2.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Adriane Boyd (aaboyd)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: web interface for editing archives

Initial Comment:
This patch makes it possible for list administrators to
edit their list archives through a web interface linked
into the admin interface.

A new cgi script called editarch allows administrators
to browse by month and delete messages from the
archives.  The messages are immediately deleted from
the mbox file, but because of the overhead in
reprocessing archives, the archives aren't redone
on-the-fly.  Instead, a file is kept with a running
list of recently edited archives and a nightly cron job
does the reprocessing.  The file location is
configurable in mm_cfg.  (Note: since it has to read
through the mbox file message by message, pages will
load slowly for lists with large archives.)

In the mailman 2.1.2 source directory:

patch -p1 < editarch-2.1.2-0.1.patch

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>Comment By: Adriane Boyd (aaboyd)
Date: 2006-06-07 23:45

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The nightly cron script just runs "bin/arch --wipe" for any
list with edited archives, so the pipermail URLs for
particular messages in a list archive may change.  Because
of the way pipermail works, there's no easy solution that
keeps the URLs the same and removes messages from mailman's
mbox archives.  (There might be a solution that keeps URLs
the same if unwanted messages were replaced with empty
placeholder messages instead, but I'm not sure you'd want
empty messages cluttering up your archives, either.)

Even if you haven't edited the mbox file, badly formed date
stamps will also cause your pipermail URLs to change if you
ever run "bin/arch --wipe" because messages with bad dates
get thrown into the current month.

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Comment By: Paul Wise (pabs3)
Date: 2006-06-06 23:22

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How does this handle the changing of pipermail URLs when you
delete messages?

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Comment By: Adriane Boyd (aaboyd)
Date: 2006-06-02 19:57

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Updated patch to work with 2.1.8: fixed problems with
mailbox.py and updated to patch cleanly against 2.1.8.

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Comment By: Adriane Boyd (aaboyd)
Date: 2003-08-11 17:25

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Updated so that the permissions on the mbox file are set
properly after editing.

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