How can I find out if a mailing list is used?
Hi,
I am trying to find out the if a mailing list is used or not for all the mailing lists on our mailman server. May I know how I can find out such information?
Thank you very much in advance.
Yuan
On 5/2/2012 2:16 PM, Ma, Yuan wrote:
If a list is archived, look at the date of the last archived posting. If a list is not archived, you will have to look through Mailman logs, web logs, and/or MTA logs to see if the list has been referenced. If you think that a list is not used, you can contact the list owner. --Barry Finkel
Hi, Barry:
Thank you very much for your help.
In order to see if a list has been referenced, in addition to looking through Mailman logs, web logs, and/or MTA logs, I am wondering if there is file related to a mailing list which shows the recent using time?
Thank you very much again.
Yuan
-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-bounces+ma.76=osu.edu@python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+ma.76=osu.edu@python.org] On Behalf Of Barry S, Finkel Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 4:02 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I find out if a mailing list is used?
On 5/2/2012 2:16 PM, Ma, Yuan wrote:
If a list is archived, look at the date of the last archived posting. If a list is not archived, you will have to look through Mailman logs, web logs, and/or MTA logs to see if the list has been referenced. If you think that a list is not used, you can contact the list owner. --Barry Finkel
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Ma, Yuan wrote:
In order to see if a list has been referenced, in addition to looking through Mailman logs, web logs, and/or MTA logs, I am wondering if there is file related to a mailing list which shows the recent using time?
Every list has a 'last_post_time' attribute which is the time of last post. See <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/last_post.py> for a withlist script to display it for one or all lists.
If you want to know things like when was the web admin interface or the listinfo page for a list last accessed, you'd have to analyze your web server logs for that info as Mailman doesn't track it.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 5/2/2012 2:16 PM, Ma, Yuan wrote:
If a list is archived, look at the date of the last archived posting. If a list is not archived, you will have to look through Mailman logs, web logs, and/or MTA logs to see if the list has been referenced. If you think that a list is not used, you can contact the list owner. --Barry Finkel
Hi, Barry:
Thank you very much for your help.
In order to see if a list has been referenced, in addition to looking through Mailman logs, web logs, and/or MTA logs, I am wondering if there is file related to a mailing list which shows the recent using time?
Thank you very much again.
Yuan
-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-bounces+ma.76=osu.edu@python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+ma.76=osu.edu@python.org] On Behalf Of Barry S, Finkel Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 4:02 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I find out if a mailing list is used?
On 5/2/2012 2:16 PM, Ma, Yuan wrote:
If a list is archived, look at the date of the last archived posting. If a list is not archived, you will have to look through Mailman logs, web logs, and/or MTA logs to see if the list has been referenced. If you think that a list is not used, you can contact the list owner. --Barry Finkel
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/ma.76%40osu.edu
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Ma, Yuan wrote:
In order to see if a list has been referenced, in addition to looking through Mailman logs, web logs, and/or MTA logs, I am wondering if there is file related to a mailing list which shows the recent using time?
Every list has a 'last_post_time' attribute which is the time of last post. See <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/last_post.py> for a withlist script to display it for one or all lists.
If you want to know things like when was the web admin interface or the listinfo page for a list last accessed, you'd have to analyze your web server logs for that info as Mailman doesn't track it.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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