is it safe to remove these attachments directories? Or will all the attachment files just come back?

Assuming the list doesn't archive (archive = No), the only things stored in the attachments directory are attachments scrubbed from the 'plain' format digest. You can remove the attachments directory and its contents, and those specific files won't come back, but as long as your list is digestable, attachments from subsequent digests will continue to be stored. You might think creating a attachments directory as a symlink to /dev/null would work, but it won't because Mailman tries to create and access subdirectories under attachments. Probably the best you can do is create a cron job to 'rm -rf archives/private/listname/attachments' or maybe 'find archives/private/listname/attachments -maxdepth 1 -mtime +2 -exec rm -f \{\} \;'. The 'find' example should just remove those subdirectories older than 2 days (-mtime +2). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/266317 Title: attachments archived even when archiving disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266317/+subscriptions