We have a list with a very large archive, over 137,000 messages in a month. It catches system alerts. This might just be a bad idea. Maybe we should archive by day. But it's been all right for many months up to now.
I'm looking for ideas on how to solve a problem with the archives.
Yesterday the archive got into a weird state that I could not break by a shutdown and fresh start. For each incoming message, it rewrites all of the old messages with one extra newline. This useless activity takes quite a while and has caused mail to accumulate in the in/ directory.
Inspection of a sample message in a backup from about 24 hours ago shows hundreds of newlines added to the message in that time. The newlines are always added at the same place, between this:---
I must correct myself.
First-- The monthly archive is 9,000 messages (137,000 is the total in the entire archive going back for years).
Second-- Not all messages are getting rewritten one newline at a time. Only those with "An HTML attachment was scrubbed..." get the rewrite.
Still happening
Joseph Brennan Manager, Email and Systems Applications Columbia University Information Technology
I must correct myself.
First-- The monthly archive is 9,000 messages (137,000 is the total in the entire archive going back for years).
Second-- Not all messages are getting rewritten one newline at a time. Only those with "An HTML attachment was scrubbed..." get the rewrite.
Still happening
Joseph Brennan Manager, Email and Systems Applications Columbia University Information Technology
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