mlmmj-maintd(1)

✨ NAME ✨

mlmmj-maintd — the maintenance bestie for mlmmj-maintained lists 🧹💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mlmmj-maintd [-F] [-d /path/to/dir | -L /path/to/dir]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea, the flags first:

• -d <path> — the full path to the directory where all the lists live 📁
• -L <path> — the full path to a single list directory 📂
• -F — no forking, bestie, just one single maintenance run and done ✋

This is literally the program that does the maintenance for an mlmmj based mailing list, and she stays busy 👑. She will:

• unsubscribe people who have bounced for long enough 💀
• send out bounce probes 🔍
• resend mails that couldn't be delivered to the relayhost 📮
• clean out stale requests for e.g. subscription 🧼
• resend list mails ✉️
• clean up leftover files etc. 🗑️

If there's a directory containing several lists, you can use -d to point at it, and then mlmmj-maintd will do a maintenance run in every listdir below the one you specified. it's giving multitasking icon 💅✨

Only either -d or -L can be specified at the same time. pick a lane, babe 🫶

She runs as a daemon, unless you pass the -F switch — in which case she just runs once and dips. The -F option is the move when you don't want yet another daemon hanging around and you'd rather let e.g. cron control her instead. And if you are going the cron route, mlmmj-maintd should be run every 2 hours or so ⏰ no cap.

An example crontab entry, since i know you were gonna ask:

0 */2 * * * /usr/bin/mlmmj-maintd -F -L /path/to/list

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

This manual page was written by the following persons: Søren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> (based on html2man output), and Mads Martin Jørgensen <mmj@mmj.dk> 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by the Debian crew, dated September 1, 2004, for mlmmj-maintd(1) 🌈 mwah, go run your maintenance 💖