On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:09 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 16:48, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 10:53 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > There are quite a few board@ mails stored under /srv/board. These date
> > > from 201605 to 201705.
> > >
> > > Some are duplicates of those under /srv/mail/board but there are some
> > > unique ones, and some are copies sent to whimsy-vm3 for which there
> > > are copies sent to whimsy-vm4.
> > >
> > > Do these need to be copied to the new host?
> >
> > I don't believe so. The new directory is /srv/mail/board.
> >
> > > How long do board emails need to be kept for use by Whimsy?
> >
> > One year (probably best rounded to 13 months). As an example, the
> > board agenda tool will report whether or not comments made on board
> > reports within the last year got any responses.
>
> OK, so maybe there needs to be a monthly clean-up?
Just for clarity, it would be a good idea to have a cron job that runs
monthly under the www-data user id that runs something like the
following logic:
require 'date'
require 'fileutils'
keep = (Date.today - 365).strftime('%Y-%m')
mail = '/srv/mail'
Dir["#{mail}/board/20*", "#{mail}/members/20*"].each do |dir|
FileUtils.rm_rf dir unless File.basename(dir) >= keep
end
- Sam Ruby
