I'll give it a shot on one of my boxes (create a soft link to the mbox into my mailbox) and let you know... It *should* work.
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 11:18, Victor Tsaran wrote: > Hi, John! > Do you think the access to the mbox can also be done through IMAP? I am not > an administrator on this machine, just a list admin, but I need to know what > to tell the root. > Regards, > Victor > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Managing archives > > > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 09:26, Victor Tsaran wrote: > > Hello, listers! > > Here is my situation. I am managing several lists for an international > > organization. Over the last couple of years our archives have grown quite > > large and, I am sure, that many of the messages are no longer necessary to > > keep. What is the easiest way for me to pull down the whole archive, > convert > > it to something that can be reviewed/edited by the organization's > secretary, > > pull it back together and reupload back to the server. Is there a tool > that > > will allow me to do this? I myself don't have the time to carry out this > > task, however, I cannot expect the secretary to fool around with Unix mail > > boxes etc. > > Also, I have seen some web sites that zip their messages while archiving. > > How is this done? > > Thanks much for any response I can get on this. > > Regards, > > Vic > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > You should be able to set it up so that the secretary can simply browse > the archive emails via an email program and then delete the messages he > thinks are not necessary. > > Mailman archives are stored in an mbox file on the server > > If you copy the mbox file to a computer running evolution (that's what I > currently use for my email - and its great!) then he can read the > messages as though they are simply local messages in the INBOX (or some > other folder that you create). Once he deletes the extraneous messages, > he does an "expunge" or rebuild on the mailbox! Now you have a new mbox > that is ready to be copied back up to the Mailman archives. > > Once the mbox is put back in place, you will need to run the > ~mailman/bin/arch command to rebuild the archives using the new mbox > file. > > Aside: I wonder how hard it would be to build a web interface for > editing the archives? We could use formail to break-out each of the old > messages and move them into a holding directory, then scan the holding > directory to get the subject/date from each message. Display those with > a link to pull up the whole message, and a checkbox for deleting the > message. > > Once you click done, the back-end cgi would reassembles the mbox by just > cat-ing the remaining files back together - then it would back up the > old mbox file and put this one in place. After that, it would run the > Mailman arch program for the list. > > OR it would probably be easier to use the existing pipermail setup but > add a delete field for use by an admin (running pipermail from a > specified ip or from localhost), then use the built-in python libraries > for handling mbox - after all, you are just deleting a message from an > mbox file and that is a fairly boring/mundane task. > > Jon Carnes > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org