[Mailman-Users] attachements question

[Manuel Kissoyan]

hi!

Where exactly are saved the atatchement files, also in which format uencoded 
or just like the original attachement file?

thank you in advance!









> At 3:04 PM -0300 2005-09-27, Manuel Kissoyan wrote:
>
>>  My question is, how long are these files saved for people to download
>
> They are saved until some other process comes along to clean them out.
>
>> 
>> and
>>  are they automatically deleted after a while?
>
> That's not part of the standard cron jobs, no.
>
>>                                                 Is there a way for me
>>  to manually go in and delete them so they dont build up and take up
>>  server space?
>
> Sure, you can go manually delete them.  Or you can set up a cron job to go 
> delete any attachments more than a certain age.
>
>>                 Im assuming they self delete after a while because
>>  clicking on one of the link now indicates its not there."
>
> That implies that something else is going on.  There is no standard cron 
> job that I know of to clean out the old attachments.
>
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