On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 at 14:45, Marco van Tol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks again for your answer.
>
> First of all, all of what I write below happened on a test list server, so
> no real harm was done.
> I'm just curious how to recover from this, and how to get to what I need.
> :-)
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Sept 2024 at 21:16, Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 9/11/24 00:23, Marco van Tol wrote:
>> >
>> > We're interested in the development of a feature in mailman3 where we
>> can
>> > configure it to automatically expire/remove threads in/from the archive
>> > older than x number of days.
>>
>> The script at https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/prune_arch3 could be
>> easily modified to do this and then be run periodically by cron.
>>
>
> I made a modified version of the script, and ran it.
> (attachment: script-1.py)
>
> The script went on its way for a bit, and then blew up.
> (attachment: error-run-1.txt)
>
[...]
I made a change to the script that's really blunt but does work.
See the attached change. I can make it more efficient by calling the
Email.objects.filter() once per loop instead of the current 2, but if you
have any other improvements they'd be welcome.
> And secondary: can I avoid the call to rebuild_index? The actual
> production server has a massive count of messages.
>
This one very much stands, hopefully I can integrate the message deletion
mode-direct into the archive search index.
Thank you very much in advance!
Marco van Tol
RIPE NCC
import os
import sys
import django
from datetime import datetime, timezone
sys.path.insert(0, '/opt/mailman-web')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'settings'
django.setup()
from hyperkitty.models.email import Email
def usage():
print(f'Usage: {sys.argv[0]} yyyy-mm-dd', file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
usage()
try:
year, month, day = sys.argv[1].split('-')
except ValueError:
usage()
try:
cutoff = datetime(int(year), int(month), int(day), tzinfo=timezone.utc)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
usage()
count = 0
while Email.objects.filter(mailinglist=4, date__lt=cutoff).count() > 0:
msg = Email.objects.filter(mailinglist=4, date__lt=cutoff)[0]
print(msg.mailinglist, msg.date, msg.sender)
msg.delete()
count += 1
print(f"Deleted {count} messages")
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