[Mailman-Users] Diff Two Mailman Paths?

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Fri Jun 13 21:37:35 CEST 2008


Carlos Williams wrote:
>
>My question is when looking at "/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/" I
>notice that there are several old and deleted or no longer functioning
>lists in  this directory. Is there nothing that cleans up this path
>when you create a test list and then remove it using the script
>provided in /usr/lib/mailman/bin?


/usr/lib/mailman/bin/rmlist has an option (-a or --archives) to remove
the archives of a list either as the list is removed or after the fact.

It is not the default because sometimes it is desired to remove an
inactive list but keep its archives.

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