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RMNEWS(8)                                                                                          RMNEWS(8)



NAME
       rmnews - expunge and remove news articles

SYNOPSIS
       rmnews

DESCRIPTION
       Rmnews reads article data from the standard input.  It then expunges and removes the listed articles.
       Rmnews is designed to be used by InterNetNews to remove canceled, superseded, and expired news  arti-cles. articles.
       cles.

       The  input  is  processed as an INN expirerm file listing or an INN cancel stream written as a ``WC''
       entry in the newsfeeds(5) file.  This data consists of lines of text, each containing a list of rela-tive relative
       tive  article  pathnames,  with  a single space between entries.  If a listed file is contained in an
       IMAP news mailbox, it is expunged out of that mailbox.  In any case, each listed file is unlinked.

       Rmnews reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file.  The optional newsprefix option
       specifies  a  prefix to be prepended to newsgroup names to make the corresponding IMAP mailbox names.
       The required partition-news option specifies the pathname prefix to the  IMAP  news  mailboxes.   The
       value  of  partition-news concatenated with the dots-to-slashes-converted value of newsprefix must be
       the pathname of the news spool directory.

FILES
       /etc/imapd.conf



CMU                                             Project Cyrus                                      RMNEWS(8)

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