Re: [Mailman-Users] site administration question

2006-08-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Larry Johnson wrote: > >Now I have one other related question. The archives directories have >the mbox file of the form: > >mailman/archives/private/.mbox/.mbox > >This file seems to grow indefinitely, and is paralleled by the various >*.txt files broken down by month. We'd like to remove message

Re: [Mailman-Users] site administration question

2006-08-21 Thread Larry Johnson
I wrote: > > First question -- do we really need the zipped up copy, while the > > unzipped version is in the directory? Are there any local settings we > > can do to optimize space until we've moved to the new machine? > and in response: On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:02 -0700, William Yardley wrot

Re: [Mailman-Users] site administration question

2006-08-16 Thread William Yardley
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:46:03PM -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > > In the meantime we're having serious space issues with the current > machine, and I have a question about the way the messages are stored > here. In the archive directories under the list name messages seem to > be stored in three

[Mailman-Users] site administration question

2006-08-16 Thread Larry Johnson
I'm a solaris/linux sysadmin who's recently taken over the site administration of a mailman system after the departure of the guy who set the system up. We're currently running an older version of mailman (2.1.4) but we're in the process of upgrading to 2.1.8 and migrating to a more substantial m