[Mailman-Users] Old messages in bounces and in

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hi,

we've been running Mailman for several years now (currently version 2.1.9), 
but up to now we've neglected some housekeeping. Actually that's a 
testament to how well it works for the most part! Still, I guess there are 
things we should be doing. Recently we've started running the Daily Status 
Report script. There are some issues that I don't understand. Here's one:

Subdirectory: bounces
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Entries: 37
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total 304
drwxrws---    2 mailman  mailman      8192 Mar  6 23:57 .
drwxrwsr-x   12 root     mailman      4096 Dec 27  2006 ..
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      3115 Jan  9  2007 
1168304393.8014059+653abf0ec76b61ef5f5245e7f08d944c441bc306.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      3074 Jan 27  2007 
1169866007.5216539+598123641f4820025a7c1b576d18b61e04948bd7.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      3347 Feb 13  2007 
1171355334.9604959+b04835e809571383842bc27f2ab87b74add6707d.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      4001 Feb 14  2007 
1171480541.145843+1691249655c377204dd41524524d880d3d7c83ad.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      1311 Mar  1  2007 
1172779123.972533+6278c754a56f31565ae77b5d72ae26ce5f1a8fe4.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      1310 Mar  1  2007 
1172779125.3440011+e4d563178ad2870dd873807f9312ac5a235ae21b.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      2822 Mar  5  2007 
1173099887.501122+d5713e44878095cd77a72d9225194e38036b950f.bak

	More than 20 total entries, skipping ...

-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      3158 Oct 11 00:11 
1192054281.6601789+d97aca15588bc28b251fcc49f042f505ea5f2241.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5511 Oct 15 14:43 
1192452228.843272+5ac3cc2cf2c9459028d3832794ce3ff0a0784079.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5514 Oct 15 14:43 
1192452229.1753449+c79bb5e1034835ef39d7d06a22fd073ab0f8f303.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      4613 Oct 23 10:19 
1193127548.6333981+1b976180b5bab9d648fe0433783e6d90ab814457.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5553 Nov  6 14:56 
1194357386.3414631+66d4ba5d970da15e83fb931bd025a378764e44b5.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5557 Nov  6 14:56 
1194357386.4404061+80a6df21be51dd4114656c9457c8e1fb393f951c.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5307 Nov  6 14:56 
1194357397.079324+6683df3a5bfca7bc07d2b836b932492cafbac502.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5571 Dec 24 18:13 
1198516384.5765851+8b8622602ba046cb557a275173e5d915df8ea578.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      4951 Feb 13 13:28 
1202905682.6427169+efe36a78f0a511d130ec88250ab92f082d9cef35.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      3957 Mar  3 17:24 
1204561474.39325+8808de39e232bc9fe6465d0470dfe921d2cfb2aa.bak

Subdirectory: in
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Entries: 159
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total 1100
drwxrws---    2 mailman  mailman    212992 Mar  6 23:58 .
drwxrwsr-x   12 root     mailman      4096 Dec 27  2006 ..
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      4140 Jan  3  2007 
1167840137.109689+79891fb75a203b544dd071b9c7b1f03932b60587.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5837 Jan  4  2007 
1167894274.0668249+207e2bf67b4335f2085b20b5afdffdbb9d7a36fe.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      3849 Jan  5  2007 
1167978082.64961+baca5c35ea3fbe5a3e976ac322aa329c8f0eae5a.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      4422 Jan  9  2007 
1168342414.339148+6b59a0d214fda24183090557092a37451310cbcc.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      1275 Jan 12  2007 
1168582657.618654+60c97a5ac1d4c344605feab62f23148a69dd3bb4.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      2645 Jan 14  2007 
1168770867.1258171+62228a34fc53f18ff8686dc8b4e18a4f2caea7ed.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman     14447 Jan 22  2007 
1169420696.66712+5bf24a593fc5b2e34dd2ac7e0e00e5d612bc4477.bak

	More than 20 total entries, skipping ...

-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      4096 Feb 28 18:50 
1204221027.480731+a39979365cdbf418a21465ec2bbb47afda9276d9.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5945 Feb 29 11:50 
1204282253.134367+61d592f0567d442e42c2b8e8b1c6b7cc8f302c0a.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      2421 Mar  1 19:44 
1204397049.8067479+6dfd79a62091095873e80c31efae6ed1d2f54021.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      4452 Mar  3 07:59 
1204527543.135545+64f432195a7a3d864c3a6b88596945145b0b0859.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      2552 Mar  3 13:56 
1204548978.1132109+314aaaa282213138fb8d999af042d7ae615318b7.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      2760 Mar  3 16:16 
1204557395.872571+adcf0a5367a0ea5c9d7cb931bb5ea6316ad15a26.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      6348 Mar  3 19:23 
1204568594.918916+8c94f53cb900d9e6a28bbb2ce017536d88b27954.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      3045 Mar  4 19:35 
1204655705.780087+0ce84a8261b656101af135a8eba6ca0c562ea892.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5082 Mar  5 14:11 
1204722671.2960739+ccac27bcb7eac696da944b847dc2d825fec96611.bak
-rw-rw----    1 mail     mailman      5407 Mar  6 02:07 
1204765651.4657221+d1caa1a9a4df844c4dc8395f1ea2989cddadf95f.bak

What are those? Can I just delete them? How do they end up there?

Cheers, Sebastian
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     .:.Sebastian Hagedorn - RZKR-R1 (Gebäude 52), Zimmer 18.:.
Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK
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