Mike Cherry wrote:

>Is there a utility / script that will allow me to clean up very large 
>config.pck files?  I have a couple lists that receive huge amounts of spam.  
>My problem is the saved bounced information is never removed.  I've got a 
>couple config.pck files that are >15M.  The size of these files is slowing 
>down the delivery of message as it needs to be read over and over as messages 
>are processed.


Are you sure that the issue is saved bounce info? Spam should not cause
bounce info to be saved. Unrecognized bounces (spam sent to the
list-bounces address) does not store bounce info.

Have you run Mailman's bin/dumpdb on the config.pck files to verify
that the size is due to stale bounce info?

If you have a 15MB config.pck, that would be the expected size for a
list of some tens of thousands of members. If your list has
significantly fewer members than that, then I am really curious to
know what is in it.

Anyway, yes there is a script. See
<http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/fix_bad_bounce_info.py> (mirrored at
<http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~msapiro/scripts/fix_bad_bounce_info.py>).

This withlist script will remove all bounce info for non-members (there
should never be any, but ...) and will also remove stale bounce info
for list members. It will not remove non-stale bounce info, and it
will not remove bounce info for a member with delivery disabled by
bounce, as that is still used to control the notices and eventual
removal of the member by cron/disabled.

Let us know how this works for you.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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