[Mailman-Users] Diff Two Mailman Paths?

[Dragon]

Carlos Williams sent the message below at 11:53 6/13/2008:
>I am moving mailman from one server to another server (not changing
>the domain) and noticed the instructions here:
>
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-January/055208.html
>
>The instructions show to make sure you copy both the contents of
>/var/lib/mailman/lists to the new server and also
>/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/.
>
>My question is when looking at "/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/" I
>notice that there are several old and deleted or no longer functioning
>lists in  this directory. Is there nothing that cleans up this path
>when you create a test list and then remove it using the script
>provided in /usr/lib/mailman/bin?
>
>I just don't like a lot of clutter and want this as clean as possible.
>
>Thanks for any info and help!
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Nope, nothing will automatically remove the archives.

Not everyone wants the archives to go away even when a list does. The 
safest thing to do is just leave it alone and let the system 
administrator deal with it as desired.


Dragon

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