[Mailman-Users] removing articles from mailman archive

Jerry Adlersfluegel jerrya at jerrya.net
Fri Jan 12 20:13:32 CET 2001


On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Brian J. Atkisson wrote:

> I hoping someone can help here...  I need to purge last year's articles from
> a mailman list.  I already tried:
> 
> rm -rf $prefix/archives/private/listname
> $prefix/bin/arch listname
> 
> However, this didn't work.  When I ran the arch command, it simply rebuilt
> the entire archive.  I would be grateful for any suggestions!

Before you run arch, you have to edit your listname.mbox file to remove
last year's articles. 

-- 
Jerry Adlersfluegel





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