[Mailman-Users] Deleting Archives - Was(Permission of data/bounce-events-?????.pck)

[Mark Sapiro]

Clovis Tristao wrote:
>
>How I make to erase these archives? I can do it?
>I have archives since Novembro/2005.

First - please don't hijack existing threads for unrelated posts. It
makes the archives difficult to read. Post a new message rather than a
reply.

If you don't want list archives at all, you can safely set archive to
No on your lists Archiving Options page and then delete the
archives/private/listname/ and archives/private/listname.mbox/
directories, and if your archives were public, also delete the
archives/public/listname/ and archives/public/listname.mbox/
directories.

If you want to keep only recent archives, say from the last month or
two, you can delete the unwanted stuff from the
archives/private/listname/ directory, but there will still be old
entries in the index.

A better method would be to delete old posts from the
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file and rebuild the
archives as described at
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp>.

Note that if you delete old posts from the
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file and rebuild the
archives, the URLs of remaining archived messages will change. This is
only a problem if one post refers to another by URL or if someone
saves the URL for later. This is probably not important to you if you
are only archiving the last month or two.

-- 
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