On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:23:22PM +0000, Alain Williams wrote: > I sometimes get asked how many messages are sent out to a mail list. > > So I wrote a script to tell me. This works under ksh or bash. > > The script is attached and I am happy for this to become part of mailman or > put > into an associated library. > > You need to run it in the list's archive directory.
Drat, this list does not allow attachments, so here it is in line: # Show how much email sent through a mailman mail list # Copyright (c) Alain Williams <[email protected]> January 2009 # This program is free software and is licenced under the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html # This should be run in a directory like: # /var/spool/mailman/bray/archives/private/chat # Note that this needs write access to the directory since it creates a temporary # directory. echo "Columns: month number-of-messages total-message-size" Months="January February March April May June July August September October November December" FilesTot=0 # Work out starting year, look for something like: 2004-December startYear=$( ls | perl -wlne '$year = $1 if(/^(\d\d\d\d)-/ and ( !defined($year) or $1 < $year)); END {print $year }' ) endYear=$( date '+%Y' ) for year in $( seq $startYear $endYear ) do echo "Year $year" YearTot=0 for month in $Months do [[ ! -d $year-$month ]] && printf "$year $month\tnone\n" && continue cd $year-$month || exit mkdir x || exit ln [0-9]* x cd x || exit files=$( ls -f | wc -l ) (( FilesTot += files )) (( YearTot += files )) printf "$year $month\t$files\t$( du -h | cut -f 1 )\n" cd .. || exit rm -rf x cd .. || exit done echo "Total for year $year: $YearTot" done echo "Emails total $FilesTot" -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include <std_disclaimer.h> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
