Patricia A Moss wrote: > >This system has been in place for quite a number of years. I am running >out of space and don't have the option to upgrade my hardware. I would >like to move the very old archives off of the server and into a text file, >or perhaps a pdf, to clear space on my server.
There already is a plain text mbox format archive at archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox that contains the entire list archive. Let's say this contains 10,000 messages for SOMELIST and you would like to keep the pipermail archive for only the more recent half. You have two choices. If you want to preserve the URLs for those messages you are keeping in the Pipermail archive, simple delete the older archives/private/SOMELIST/xxx periodic directories. The drawback of this approach is the deleted entries will still be in the TOC, and will return even if you edit the TOC and remove them. If you don't care about preserving URLs, you could instead do bin/arch --wipe --start=5000 SOMELIST to rebuild the Pipermail archive skipping the first 5000 messages. >I can not just delete the older archives. The clients that use the mailman >lists want to be able to see/read the older archives, for reference >purposes; hence the need for a text or pdf file. The file is there. It can be accessed via the private archive URL like http://www.example.com/mailman/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox whether the archive is private or public, but this requires authentication as a list member. You can make it accessible for a public (or private) archive via a link on the TOC by putting PUBLIC_MBOX = Yes in mm_cfg.py. I don't know how any of this will impact namazu. Of course any search engine could find older messages in the LISTNAME.mbox file, but you already know all messages are there. The users could just visit the file in their browsers and use their browser search capabilities to find what they're looking for. -- 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 http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
