[Mailman-Users] Purging old archives over 7 years old

[Mark Dale]

Hi,

We've found this to be useful.

"Using Archivemail to pruning Mailman archives"

https://playingwithsid.blogspot.se/2014/03/using-archivemail-to-pruning-mailman.html


Best,
Mark

On 15/06/17 23:05, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> 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
>