I'm doing the admin of a Mailman server with 280+ lists and I'm fighting with archive sizes. Mailman is on a 5 gig partition, and 4 gigs of that is taken up by ~mailman/archives.
In some cases the archives are big because the list gets dozens of posts a day. In other cases, people use them to send 15meg attachments, which also get archived. The archive directories contain each months mail in three formats: 1. a plaintext file: 2004-November.txt 2. a gzipped file: 2004-November.txt.gz 3. a directory: 2004-November - contains individual HTML messages. The web archive uses the files in the directory, and links to the gzipped file. Does anything use the plaintext file? It seems like it's wasting a ton of diskspace having the same file gzipped and unzipped in the same space. So, first off, can I delete the year-month.txt files without causing harm? Second, once the current month is over, can I prevent the non-zipped files from ever existing? Finally, is there a way to prevent the archiving of attachments? Any other suggestions on how to control or limit the diskspace the archives use would be greatly appreciated. -- Michael Alberghini Software Systems Engineer Georgia State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
