[nos-bbs] Expiring old mail

Michael Fox - N6MEF n6mef at mefox.org
Tue Nov 8 15:34:47 EST 2011


Yup.

-----Original Message-----
From: nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
Of Bob Tenty
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:25 PM
To: TAPR xNOS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] Expiring old mail

Do you have the right commands in your autoexec.nos?

for instance:

at 425 "expire now"
at 430 "expire 24"

73,

Bob VE3TOK


On 08/11/2011 12:28 AM, Michael Fox - N6MEF wrote:
> 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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