[Mailman-Users] Can You Delete A Message From an Archive?

Barry A. Warsaw barry at digicool.com
Thu Jun 14 16:34:03 CEST 2001


>>>>> "JF" == Jim Fannin <Jim_Fannin at aotx.uscourts.gov> writes:

    JF> We have a unique circumstance in which a mail message was
    JF> posted, approved and sent to a list which turned out to have
    JF> erroneous information in it.  Management would like to remove
    JF> the message from the archive which is public. Anyone know how
    JF> to do this without killing the archive?

Just manually edit the message out of the .mbox file and re-run
bin/arch.  Take care when you edit .mbox though; you want to remove
the envelope-from header of the offending message too.

-Barry





More information about the Mailman-Users mailing list