From: "Mads Martin Jørgensen" <mmj@mmj.dk>
To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org
Subject: Re: [mlmmj] deleting posts from archive
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:05:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F632C98.6090102@mmj.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADNNayrp106uUkDfEzXCv_K7OBTp=xHAUWdS90eRhfHxS3K6VA@mail.gmail.com>
On 16/03/12 12.59, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> On 16/03/12 8:04 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
>> what is the recommended way of deleting posts from the archive?
>> Someone sent sensible data to a public mailing list and wants it to be
>> purged from the archive. Can I simply delete the respective message ID
>> from the folder, or will this confuse mlmmj?
>
> I think deleting it is fine. Mlmmj keeps track of where it's up to using
> $listdir/index, so missing archive files do not confuse it with regard
> to new incoming messages. The listname+getN@domain.tld functionality
> will fail for the missing messages, but that is of course desirable in
> this case (and the failure isn't too ungraceful).
>
> Of course you may also need to rebuild/purge any web pages built
> incrementally from your archive.
It's also possible to create an email that says something like:
"This message has been removed from the archive."
And then copy that in the archive directory instead of the email in
question. Then the get feature, etc. etc. etc., will work just fine.
--
Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
"Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?"
-- A. P. J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-16 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 9:04 [mlmmj] deleting posts from archive Florian Effenberger
2012-03-16 11:59 ` Ben Schmidt
2012-03-16 12:05 ` Mads Martin Jørgensen [this message]
2012-03-17 11:38 ` Florian Effenberger
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