On 12/22/20 6:48 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Ralf Hildebrandt writes: > > > Today I issued "prune_arch -l flohmarkt -d 30" and wondered about > > the immense size of the corresponding archive directory > > archives/private/flohmarkt > > > Shouldn't prune_arch also clean out the "attachments" directory? > > (mailman-2.1.34) > > Probably, but that's up to Mark (and I'm pretty sure that's one of his > personally-maintained scripts rather than one distributed by Mailman).
This is tricky. Prune_arch without the -n/--nobuild option will rebuild the archive from the pruned mbox file with `bin/arch --wipe`. The issue is that in the case where the list's scrub_nondigest setting is Yes, `bin/arch --wipe` preserves the old attachments/ directory because it contains scrubbed attachments which are not in the mbox file. I.e., the mbox messages have only links to the attachments in the attachments/ directory. The attachments directory contains subdirectories of the form yyyymmdd so it would be possible for prune_arch to determine which ones should also be pruned. I can look into adding that, although it probably should be optional because in the case where prune_arch is doing -b/--backup or -p/--preserve, the only place where the scrubbed attachments exist is in those attachments/ directories and removing those directories will result in possibly unintended loss of information. I.e., the backed up or pruned mbox will contain links to attachments which will be broken if the attachments are removed. My current thinking is if the list's scrub_nondigest setting is Yes, remove the "pruned" attachments and if either -b/--backup or -p/--preserve is specified, backup/preserve them too. Other thoughts are welcome. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
