List of groups with no members and no posted messages

[Petri Heimonen]

Hi!

I am trying to make a list of Google groups that have no members and no messages posted. Is that possible?

I have a list of all groups that have no members, but those groups might contain messages and I would like to know if there's any. Too many groups to look the message count one by one.

Also a list of groups that have members, but no posted messages would be nice to get also.

Thanks

-P-

[Brian Kim]

Is conversation history turned on for your group? If so, you can use Google Vault

gam print vaultcounts matter id:<vault matter id> corpus groups accounts <group name> scope all_data

Otherwise you will have to search in user's inboxes for received mail via their group membership. 

gam csv groups.csv gam redirect csv ./~~email~~.csv multiprocess all users_ns print messages query "list:~~email~~" max_to_print 1

To get list of empty groups

https://github.com/taers232c/GAM-Scripts3/blob/master/GetEmptyGroups.py

[Petri Heimonen]

Thanks! I will definitely test those commands. Yes, conversation history is turned on in the groups. But that particular Google workspace does not have Vault in use, so cannot use that. Or I need to configute the Vault in use first, if that helps.

[Ian Crew]

Also note that just because a Group hasn’t had email sent to it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s not in use. Groups can be used for many other purposes, like access to files/folders in Drive, Calendar event invitations, and so on. 

In other words, there’s no really good way to tell that a Group isn’t in use anymore, and, IMHO at least, probably no real reason to bother trying to clean up unused ones. 

Cheers,

Ian

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