[Mailman-Users] Deleting/pruning archives

[Brad Knowles]

At 8:13 PM -0700 2004-08-07, Anoetic Concepts wrote:

>  I need to reduce the size of some of my list archives.  Am I correct
>  that it is the archives that reside in the directory at
>  /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/archives/private.

	Could be, but see 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.011.htp>.

>  If some can be removed but not all, please tell me what I can and
>  cannot remove.  I do not want to break any of the lists or Mailman
>  itself.

	You may find 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.022.htp> 
and 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp> 
useful.

>  Also, I'm seeing a few directories for domains which have been removed
>  from the server.  Why were these directories not removed when the
>  accounts were deleted?  Is it safe to entirely remove the directories?

	Dunno.  This may be a CPanel-specific thing.

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