Regenerating pipermail archives

I've done this before but it's been a while, and I don't remember the
answer - so maybe one of you kind folks will give me the answer and save
me the research.

When editing a Mailman pipermail archive to expunge one or more posts
prior to using the arch utility to regenerate all the archive files,
what's the master file that one needs to edit? - the listname.mbox
file, the listname.txt file or the listname.txt.gz file?

Is there a HOWTO somewhere on editing pipermail archives?

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Here's the howto:

http://wiki.list.org/x/OAB0

But the short version is you want to edit listname.mbox/listname.mbox
and then run bin/arch to regenerate the archives. Make sure to shut
down mailman for the few minutes while you do this if you don't want to
risk missing messages.

Lindsay Haisley wrote:

I've done this before but it's been a while, and I don't remember the
answer - so maybe one of you kind folks will give me the answer and save
me the research.

When editing a Mailman pipermail archive to expunge one or more posts
prior to using the arch utility to regenerate all the archive files,
what's the master file that one needs to edit? - the listname.mbox
file, the listname.txt file or the listname.txt.gz file?

Is there a HOWTO somewhere on editing pipermail archives?

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