On 08/17/2016 05:31 AM, Jewel Brueggeman-Makda wrote:

I am wanting to shrink the archives on my lists. I only want to keep archives for the last 2 or 3 years. Is there a script that will do this? What are the steps to truncating and rebuilding an archive?

Mark Sapiro has written a script that will prune older messages from an archive, and then rebuild the HTML archives: https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/prune_arch

You can do it by hand by editing the mbox file for the list (typically /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/{listname}.mbox/{listname}.mbox) to remove the messages you no longer want to keep, and then rebuild the HTML archives with "arch --wipe {listname}" Be careful to maintain file permissions during the process.

There are more details in the Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/4030681

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