Expose Mailman's "max_days_to_hold" option for mailing lists

Bug #396592 reported by Greg Grossmeier
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Launchpad itself
Triaged
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Bug Description

Mailman on lists.ubuntu.com has a setting called "max_days_to_hold" which is described as "Discard held messages older than this number of days. Use 0 for no automatic discarding."

This option aids in management of lists that receive a large amount of spam. Enabling it on launchpad mailing lists would be beneficial for list administrators.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

Barry, is this viable with our integration? Since the long-term goal is to move all Ubuntu lists into launchpad, we may want the exact rules in Launchpad.

Changed in launchpad-registry:
assignee: nobody → Barry Warsaw (barry)
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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

This would be pretty easy to do, especially if we did not want to give a configurability knob to team owners. It would probably be a one or two line change in the code, plus a script to backpatch existing lists.

What would be a reasonable default for discarding old messages? 14 days perhaps?

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
assignee: Barry Warsaw (barry) → nobody
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Barry Warsaw (barry)
summary: - provide a "max_days_to_hold" option for mailing lists
+ Expose Mailman's "max_days_to_hold" option for mailing lists
Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: Low → High
assignee: nobody → Barry Warsaw (barry)
milestone: none → 2.2.9
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
milestone: 3.0 → 3.1.10
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: High → Low
Barry Warsaw (barry)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
assignee: Barry Warsaw (barry) → nobody
milestone: 3.1.10 → none
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