Savoy, Jim wrote:
Mark Sapiro wrote:
For the others, you need to at least read the comments in crontab.in and understand what the job does before deciding not to run it.
I will probably leave the gateway news stuff out forever. And also the password reminder thing, as we don't want to bombard our students with more info (most of our 900+ lists are NOT opt-in, and most are read-only, and we rotate thousands of different users through these lists each semester, without their knowledge).
Fair enough, although the sending of reminders is a list option. You can set
DEFAULT_SEND_REMINDERS = No
in mm_cfg.py and see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/MIBp> for the easy way to set send_reminders to No for existing lists, and then you could set send_reminders to Yes for those few lists where it might be useful.
I probably won't run the "disabled users" reminder either, for the same reason as above.
This has a side effect which may not be important in your environment. If bounce processing is enabled for a list and bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings is set > 0, when a user's bounce score reaches the threshold, the users delivery is disabled by bounce and the first notice is sent. From there the entire process of sending subsequent notices and removing bouncing members from the list is don by cron/disabled, so if you have bounce processing is enabled for a list and bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings is set > 0 and you don't run cron/disabled, the members who have been disabled by bounce will never be removed.
So that just leaves two more things to run via cron: digests and archive gzipping. I will run the digests thing next and if that goes smoothly, unleash the archive gzipping.
Actually, gzipping of the archive is the one I don't run. It doesn't save any space because the monthly .txt files are still kept as well as the .txt.gz files, but the .txt.gz file will be served in preference to the .txt file if it exists, even if it is up to a day old.
The only thing you save is maybe some bandwidth in serving the file, but the web server may be gunzipping the file and serving the plain text anyway, so maybe you save nothing.
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