auto-pruning mailman messages held for approval

[Stephen Gallagher]

On 05/20/2010 11:03 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> Hey,
>    in /var/lib/mailman/data/ there are an ass-tonne of messages held in
> various approval queues.
>
> This morning there were a total of 21778 messages waiting for various
> lists. Some of them are NOT young.
>
> Since they are just files that live in that dir - how would folks feel
> about setting a 2-month limit? If a message is not
> approved/discarded/rejected/etc by the mailing list admin w/i 2months then
> tmpwatch it away?
>
> it, ultimately, makes mailman run better.
>
> -sv
>

+1

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