Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting old msgs?

2011-12-03 Thread Richard Haas
Mark Sapiro msapiro.net> writes: > > I have added a -p/--preserve option to collect the pruned messages in > archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox.pruned, appending to that > file if it exists. You could then compress that and save it anywhere > you want. If you feel it is important to pro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting old msgs?

2011-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Richard Haas wrote: > >Having fewer layers would be welcome though, so thanks for this script, >Mark. You're welcome. >One idea/request: Would you be willing to add the logic to write >the pruned message data to a supplied path+filename? That would let >the script dump the pruned data where

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting old msgs?

2011-12-03 Thread Richard Haas
Mark Sapiro msapiro.net> writes: > > Frank Bell wrote: > > >Is there any easier way? I just took over our mailman server and we have > >several years worth of messages in 190+ mboxs totaling approx 130 gig > >and a few 100K msgs. > > You inspired me. I've created a script for pruning archive