Steven Jones wrote:

Hi,

I have a 12year old mailman server which is absorbing 650gb of expensive disk space. Is there any feature that would go through each list's archives and delete emails over say 7 years old? (or maybe even only 3 as we do a yearly backup going back a decade).

I've no idea if mailman has own special tools for that, standard Unix tools can find tools that use the Unix find command, eg echo "Learn find, dialects vary per Unix." man find cd /usr/local/mailman/bin echo "Get an idea where to look:" find . -type f | sort | xargs grep -l find | more find . -type f | sort | xargs grep -l find
| grep -v /archives/
| grep -v /lists/
| grep -v /logs/
| grep -v /messages/
| grep -v /templates/
| grep -v /tests/
| more echo "Ignore ./cgi-bin/* binaries." vi -c/find find bin/* scripts/* -type f | xargs grep -l find echo "Also consider ./Mailman/*/*.py[c] files"

Or more simply:

cd /usr/local/mailman/archives find . -type f -name \*.html | more ./private/pc532/index.html ./private/pc532/2017q2/000000.html ./private/pc532/2017q2/date.html ./private/pc532/2017q2/subject.html ./private/pc532/2017q2/author.html ./private/pc532/2017q2/thread.html ./private/pc532/2017q2/000001.html ./private/pc532/2017q2/000002.html

so eg rm -rf ./private/pc532/2007*

find . -type f -name \*.html | xargs ls -l > ~/tmp/dates_to_browse find . -type f -name \[0-9\]\*.html find . -type d -name 2012q\* | more find . -type d -name 2012q\* | xargs rm -rf

Find is very powerful. Read man find before you use find, use more before you use rm Do a backup before anything.

Cheers, Julian

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On Jun 14, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Steven Jones <Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz<mailto:Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz>> wrote:

Hi,

I have a 12year old mailman server which is absorbing 650gb of expensive disk space. Is there any feature that would go through each list's archives and delete emails over say 7 years old? (or maybe even only 3 as we do a yearly backup going back a decade).

regards

Steven

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