[mlmmj] deleting posts from archive

[mlmmj] deleting posts from archive

[Florian Effenberger]

Hello,

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?

Thanks,
Florian

Re: [mlmmj] deleting posts from archive

[Ben Schmidt]

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.

Ben.

Re: [mlmmj] deleting posts from archive

[Mads Martin Jørgensen]

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.

Re: [mlmmj] deleting posts from archive

[Florian Effenberger]

Hello,

2012/3/16 Mads Martin Jørgensen <mmj@mmj.dk>:

> It's also possible to create an email that says something like:
>
> "This message has been removed from the archive."

thanks for the feedback, this is indeed a good idea. Will do it that
way, so no URLs in my index change. :)

Florian