[Mailman-Users] How may I delete selected messages from archive?

Dan Mick Dan.Mick at west.sun.com
Mon Nov 27 20:40:50 CET 2000


Maurizio Codogno wrote:
> 
> Subject says pretty much all.
> I have an archived list, but I don't want to save all messages
> from the list.
> I may see the hard way: delete ~mailman/archives/private/list/Date/message
> and the bit in ~mailman/archives/private/list/Date.txt , and rebuild
> the pointers, but I hope that there is a simpler way!

If you still have the whole .mbox file, edit it (i.e. back it up and
clip out the bits you don't want, from '^From ' to '^From ' line, 
and then rerun bin/arch to build the archives anew.




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