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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

We did recently setup a process to detect inactive mailing lists and do some cleanup in our mailing lists server.

It worked pretty well and we will probably run it yearly now.

Here is the process:

1. detecting inactive/ead lists: the script loads all lists data to find inactive ones.

• it checks:
  

• latest distribution date,
  
• if defined owners are valid addresses
• creation date
• number of list members
  

        excluded from this process are:

• lists attached to a family,
  
• closed already lists,
  
• lists included by another list,
  
• lists tagged as "to_keep" (using custom_vars)
  

      performing actions

• low inactivity level: keep the list open,
• medium inactivity level: notify list owners that we plan to close the list,
• high inactivity level: close the list.

We could share that script (asis) if it is useful to others

Le 13/05/2022 à 18:33, Widerski, Betty a écrit :

Hi –

 

I have a request to be able to include an end/expiration date for our lists – not something that actively inactivates a list, but something we could use to generate a report of past-their-date lists so we can contact the owners then delete.

 

I’m not seeing anything like that in Sympa – but this is our first use of it so want to check I’m not missing anything.

 

My current idea is to add a keyword and date in a list’s Description, then output a grep of all the lists’ info files for a line containing the keyword – but I don’t want to get into building external scripts to massage that output into a report of expire dates older than X, which my manager would like.

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Olivier Salaün
DSI / pôle SI / équipe SNUM
Tel : 02 23 23 74 54