[Mailman-Users] I am sorry to bother everyone but ..

[Mark Sapiro]

Don Steiny wrote:
>
>   I maintain some lists and 99% or more of what I get to the admin
>address spam that has been effectively been dealt with. It got so I just
>told everyone one the list to write me directly with problems and once
>every couple of weeks I would delete everything that came to the admin.
> I went a way for a couple of months and now there is so much stuff, I
>can't get rid if it. The Web interface times out.  Is there any backdoor
>way I can delete it all? I know the shell and MySQL very well.


If you are talking about held messages in the admindb web interface,
see
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.074.htp>.
Also, if your Mailman is 2.1.6 or newer, consider setting
max_days_to_hold on the admin General Options page.

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