From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 10:15:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21195 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21171 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:15:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 105v9k-000FG8-00; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:23:04 +0000 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:23:04 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: root@isis.dynip.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to archive Huge mailing list folders Message-ID: <19990128172303.A58482@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199901272158.AAA77569@isis.dynip.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901272158.AAA77569@isis.dynip.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG root@isis.dynip.com wrote: > Hi there, > I was wondering how to archive the mailing lists I'm getting from > freebsd (REALLY BIG) I wrote a few perl scripts which moves the mailbox when it gets too big, strips a lot of header information[1] and gzips them. If anyone's interested, the scripts are at http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/users/ben/scripts/mail/ (and no snide remarks about my perl skills [or lack thereof] please :-) Useful feedback would be appreciated though. They don't use any file locking at the moment, which could cause a problem, but they suffice for my personal use (which is all I wrote them for). -- [1] removing those received: headers saves a fair bit of space -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message