Re: [Mailman-Users] mbox files in the archives

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 15:29 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > I asked a similar question to this earlier (involving the g'zipped files > in the archives). I inherited administration of a mailman system (I'm a > solaris sysadmin) and have been trying to figure out the role of the > various files in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] mbox files in the archives

2006-09-27 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 9/27/06, Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The mbox files are where the messages used to build the archive HTML > files reside. > > If you remove them or edit them, you would not be able to rebuild > your archives the way they are if you ever had a need to do so. And, perhaps more importantl

Re: [Mailman-Users] mbox files in the archives

2006-09-27 Thread Dragon
Larry Johnson wrote: >What is the role of the *.mbox files in the archives? What would the >effect be of removing one? Of editing one (and removing older >messages)? They seem to grow continually. What is best practice for >managing them? End original message. -

[Mailman-Users] mbox files in the archives

2006-09-27 Thread Larry Johnson
I asked a similar question to this earlier (involving the g'zipped files in the archives). I inherited administration of a mailman system (I'm a solaris sysadmin) and have been trying to figure out the role of the various files in the archives, so that I know what I can clean out for space saving