[Mailman-Users] Delete message from list archive

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Thu Oct 7 05:49:41 CEST 2004


Bill Moseley wrote:

>This has got to be a FAQ or a previous post but "delete" and "archive"
>are not the best search terms...

Actually, they both get the relevant article as does "remove"; they
just get too many others as well.

The article you want is 3.3.

>Someone sent a message to the list that they now want removed from the
>archive.
>
>I went in an manually edited the message from:
>
>    private/<list>.mbox
>    private/<list>/2004-October.txt
>    private/<list>/2004-October/<number>.html.
>
>But I suspect there's an easier way.

Not really, but read the FAQ article including the part about the
numbering changing if you ever rebuild the archive if that's important
to you.

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