[nos-bbs] Expiring old mail

[Michael Fox - N6MEF]

Well, according to everyone who responded, there's just no way to do what I
want to do (original message below).  So I'd like to suggest the following
additions to the expire.dat file:

 

Allow "*" as a wildcard area name in expire.dat  

Allow "0" (zero) as a number of days indicator, meaning "never expire"

 

So, given the desire to do the following:

                Area "perm" should never expire

                Area "30days" should expire after 30 days

                Everything else (including messages in user areas) should
expire after 45 days

 

The resulting expire.dat file would contain:

 

perm     0

30days  30

*             45 

 

Now, I suppose that there might be a desire to expire user mail areas at a
different time than public bulletin areas.  So, instead of a single "*"
meaning ALL areas, it might be better to have two separate ones.  Something
like *users and *public.

 

Comments/suggestions?

 

Michael

N6MEF

 

From: nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Fox - N6MEF
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 12:32 PM
To: nos-bbs list
Subject: [nos-bbs] Expiring old mail

 

Is there a way to set a default expiry time for all mailboxes?

 

For example, suppose I want the following:

 

Area perm should never expire

Area 30days should expire after 30 days

Everything else (including user areas) should expire after 45 days.

 

Is there a way to do that?

 

Thanks,

Michael

N6MEF

 

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