===== Original Message From naboat_webmaster@naboat.org ===== I am trying to learn how to maintain the message archives in Mailman. How can I remove a specific message, range of messages, or all messages? Is there a web interface to do this (would be very nice) or how does one maintain the amount of messages saved, etc.

Thanks, Capn.

"Capn," the way I clean up one year old archives at my site is with two scripts. The first warns the list owner about the deletion, the second deletes any archive over a year. Unfortunately, these scripts only look after the 'monthly-named' ones - not the yearly, quarterly, (2002q4) or daily ones. I haven't had/taken the time to put the name variations into the scripts. Watch the linewraps. Others may do it better, YMMV.

#!/bin/sh # /usr/local/bin/mboxwarn # This script finds one year old archives and sends a warning message # to the list owner. Runs on the 15th of each month. Directory names # are like 2001-October. Crontab: 24 0 15 * * /usr/local/bin/mboxwarn

# constants - BASEDIR=/usr/local/mail/archives/private FULLMNTH=/usr/bin/date +"%B" TYEAR=/usr/bin/date +"%Y" LYEAR=expr $TYEAR - 1

cd /usr/local/mail/lists for LYST in ls -1; do if [ -d ${BASEDIR}/${LYST}/${LYEAR}-${FULLMNTH} ]; then

TOBEMAILED=" The following YEAR-OLD archive will be deleted on the first of next month. Please either retrieve it and save it to a personal web space to make it available to your audience, or simply do nothing and let it expire. \n\t Mailing List:\t\t ${LYST} \n\t Archive for:\t\t ${LYEAR}-${FULLMNTH} \n "

     echo "${TOBEMAILED}" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "${LYST} archive" 

${LYST}-owne r@mailman.srv.ualberta.ca fi # sleep 3 done exit

### delete script

#!/bin/sh # /usr/local/bin/mboxdel # This script trims the 13th month off the *.mbox files for each list # then deletes the list archive directory, and re-creates it all with # bin/arch. Runs on the first of the month. # Directory names are /usr/local/mail/archives/private/listname.mbox. # Crontab: 24 0 1 * * /usr/local/bin/mboxdel

#constants BASEDIR=/usr/local/mail/archives/private MNTH=/usr/bin/date +"%m" FULLMNTH=/usr/bin/date +"%B" DAYE=/usr/bin/date +"%d" TYEAR=/usr/bin/date +"%Y" LYEAR=expr $TYEAR - 1 LMNTH=expr $MNTH - 1

##start in /usr/local/mail/archives/private cd ${BASEDIR} # list of /u/l/m/archives/private/*.mbox for DUR in ls -d -1 *.mbox do cd ${DUR} # cd to ./private/*.mbox/*.mbox ELES=ls *.mbox # should give one *.mbox file in DUR if [ -r ${ELES} ]; then echo " " > ${BASEDIR}/${DUR}/${ELES}.tmp LYST=basename ${ELES} .mbox /opt/freeware/bin/grepmail -h -M -d "after ${MNTH}/${DAYE}/${LYEAR}" ${E LES} >> ${BASEDIR}/${DUR}/${ELES}.tmp rm ${BASEDIR}/${DUR}/${ELES} mv ${BASEDIR}/${DUR}/${ELES}.tmp ${BASEDIR}/${DUR}/${ELES} mv ${BASEDIR}/${LYST} ${BASEDIR}/${LYST}.sav /home/mailman/bin/arch ${LYST} rm -r ${BASEDIR}/${LYST}.sav TOBEMAILED=" The following YEAR-OLD archive has been deleted. \n\t Mailing List:\t\t ${LYST} \n\t Archive for:\t\t ${LYEAR} ${LMNTH} \n " echo "${TOBEMAILED}" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "${LYST} archive" ${LYST}-owner @mailman.srv.ualberta.ca fi cd ${BASEDIR} sleep 3 done exit

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