7 Feb
2024
7 Feb
'24
10:22 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 5:40 PM <pau.baiges@csuc.cat> wrote:
A moderator has deleted all the users from a list, is there a way to recover them?
Adding my 0.1 cents.
If all options fail, you can fall back to your MTA logs.
- Look for a recent post to that list.
- Head over to the MTA logs.
- grep for the subject of that recent post from the mainlog or whatever you call it. In Exim we generally call it mainlog (or main.log). If you were logging subjects, then you can tie the subject to the recipients of the mail. Everyone logs the recipient details, right? And we keep logs for at least a month, no? I do. Once you get the file resulting from the grep, you can use some regexp or text manipulation tools to extract all the addresses that the post was sent to. It looks not too difficult from Exim mainlog. Not sure about Postfix and other MTAs. I am very sure this will give you the list of subscribers.
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