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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