msgcleanup(1)

NAME
msgcleanup - delete the messages with their lifetime exceeded

SYNOPSIS
msgcleanup <BBS_callsign>

DESCRIPTION

This tool checks the date of all the messages downloaded from specified BBS and deletes the messages older than the specified lifetime. The lifetime of messages can be specified for each BBS in the configuration file /etc/ax25/bulletins.BBS_CALL

Each line of this file contains the name of the bulletin and the lifetime in days. When the bulletin name is DEFAULT the lifetime value is used for all the bulletins which are not contained in the list. Example of configuration file:

# Bulletin lifetimes for BBS in days
DEFAULT 30
MEET 10
LINUX 90

In this case the messages for MEET are stored 10 days, messages for LINUX are stored 90 days and all other messages are stored for 30 days.

FILES

/var/ax25/mail_routes

SEE ALSO
axgetmail(1)

AUTHOR
Radek Burget OK2JBG <radkovo@centrum.cz>