civicrm_activity table filling up with Mandrill activities

[m4olivei]

Hello,

I got a notice from our webhost that our space was almost completely used up. On further investigation, it looks like the culprit is the civicrm_activity table, taking up over 2GB of disk space. Looking into the rows in there, the majority are activity_type_id 55, 56, and 57, which I figured out were: "Mandrill Email Sent", "Mandrill Email Open"
and "Mandrill Email Click" respectively. Looks like what is really adding up is the details column, which stores a copy of the entire email every time. Is there anyway to either avoid logging an activity for each of these events or avoid storing the details for these events?

Using:
Drupal 7.25
CiviCRM 4.3.5
Mandrill Transactional Emails v1.2

Thanks!
Matt

[JoeMurray]

This is a feature request we would be happy to entertain if there was funding for it. I imagine we could have a 'Save Email Body with Actvities?' Yes/No field on the admin screen, maybe broken out by Activity type so it could be stored for sends but not opens or click-throughs. If there is no funding, you might just try removing line 194 from mte.php:
'details' => $params['html'],

i haven't tested this.

HTH

[m4olivei]

Sounds like a plan. Thanks for the help. I'll see if I can implement this for my client, if they are willing to fund, or if I just get inspired one boring night. In the meantime, I'll probably do what you suggest and comment out that line.

Thanks,
Matt

[JoeMurray]

Oh, just looking around, you also need to deal with the callback routine. Please comment out line 167 of CRM/mte/Page/callback.php:

              $activityParams['details'] = $mailBody;

To prevent creating activities you might want to explore putting in some early return statements on a few of these functions.

[m4olivei]

Cool beans, thanks Joe.

[xurizaemon]

Over in #110 there's some WIP to make this a configurable option ...