--On Monday, June 26, 2023 5:26 PM -0700 Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
On 6/26/23 4:19 PM, Ken Alker wrote:
What else is stored in /var/messages, if not archives? I see 4711 messages in that directory (which I presume would be as many messages are in the archive database). If there is a write-up on this, feel free to point me to it. I found <https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/build/lib/mailman/ model/docs/messagestore.html> but this isn't really answering my question.
These are probably artifacts from your old Debian package. There have been issues in the past with handled messages not being removed from the message store. See https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/257
This was fixed in 3.3.5 and the task runner implemented in 3.3.5 removes orphaned messages from the message store, but if they are still referenced in pendings they won't be deleted.
So is the only thing stored in var/messages/ the held messages, and nothing more?
Is there an outline as to how to clean up the var/messages hierarchy? (I assume one has to be careful not to remove current held messages and maybe old ones that have not been processed; or maybe "old ones" can all be assumed orphaned, and thus, removed w/o concern?)