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"Using Archivemail to pruning Mailman archives" https://playingwithsid.blogspot.se/2014/03/using-archivemail-to-pruning-mailman.html Best, Mark On 15/06/17 23:05, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Steven Jones wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I have a 12year old mailman server which is absorbing 650gb of expensive >> disk space. Is there any feature that would go through each list's archives >> and delete emails over say 7 years old? (or maybe even only 3 as we do a >> yearly backup going back a decade). > > I've no idea if mailman has own special tools for that, > standard Unix tools can find tools that use the Unix find command, eg > echo "Learn find, dialects vary per Unix." > man find > cd /usr/local/mailman/bin > echo "Get an idea where to look:" > find . -type f | sort | xargs grep -l find | more > find . -type f | sort | xargs grep -l find \ > | grep -v /archives/ \ > | grep -v /lists/ \ > | grep -v /logs/ \ > | grep -v /messages/ \ > | grep -v /templates/ \ > | grep -v /tests/ \ > | more > echo "Ignore ./cgi-bin/* binaries." > vi -c/find `find bin/* scripts/* -type f | xargs grep -l find` > echo "Also consider ./Mailman/*/*.py[c] files" > > Or more simply: > > cd /usr/local/mailman/archives > find . -type f -name \*.html | more > ./private/pc532/index.html > ./private/pc532/2017q2/000000.html > ./private/pc532/2017q2/date.html > ./private/pc532/2017q2/subject.html > ./private/pc532/2017q2/author.html > ./private/pc532/2017q2/thread.html > ./private/pc532/2017q2/000001.html > ./private/pc532/2017q2/000002.html > > so eg > rm -rf ./private/pc532/2007* > > find . -type f -name \*.html | xargs ls -l > ~/tmp/dates_to_browse > find . -type f -name \[0-9\]\*.html > find . -type d -name 2012q\* | more > find . -type d -name 2012q\* | xargs rm -rf > > Find is very powerful. Read > man find > before you use find, > use > more > before you use > rm > Do a backup before anything. > > Cheers, > Julian > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
