How to find out the last time an email list was used?
We have a large number of lists (~200) that have been set up over the years; the vast majority do NOT have web archives. Is there any way to determine when the last time the list had any traffic?
Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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Hi Bruce,
There is -- at least there is in the old 2.1* versions -- and you could probably write an easy script to do it. I don't know about the 3.* versions.
The config.pck for each list includes a "last_post_time" -- which shows the unix timestamp of the last post to the list. If you have command-line access, <yourmailmanhome>/bin/dumpdb will decode the contents of the config.pck file for you.
--Gretchen
Gretchen Beck Carnegie Mellon
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 5:56 PM Bruce Johnson via Mailman-Users mailman-users@python.org wrote:
We have a large number of lists (~200) that have been set up over the years; the vast majority do NOT have web archives. Is there any way to determine when the last time the list had any traffic?
Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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Thanks, yes it’s an old 2.1x version. That helps a great deal.
On Aug 30, 2022, at 3:09 PM, Gretchen Beck
Hi Bruce,
There is -- at least there is in the old 2.1* versions -- and you could probably write an easy script to do it. I don't know about the 3.* versions.
The config.pck for each list includes a "last_post_time" -- which shows the unix timestamp of the last post to the list. If you have command-line access, <yourmailmanhome>/bin/dumpdb will decode the contents of the config.pck file for you.
--Gretchen
Gretchen Beck Carnegie Mellon
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 5:56 PM Bruce Johnson via Mailman-Users
We have a large number of lists (~200) that have been set up over the years; the vast majority do NOT have web archives. Is there any way to determine when the last time the list had any traffic?
Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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-- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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