UUMAILCLEAN

Section: Maintenance Commands (8C)
Updated: UK-Sendmail
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NAME

uumailclean - uucp spool directory mail clean-up

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/uucp/uumailclean

DESCRIPTION

Uumailclean scans the uucp spool directory for mail files and checks to see how long they have been queued. If a mail message is found to have been queued for longer than failtime hours, then it is returned to the sender and deleted from the queue. If a mail message is found to have been queued for longer than warntime hours (but less than failtime), then a warning message is sent to the sender to inform them that the mail has yet to be delivered.

By default, failtime is set to 168 hours (1 week) and warntime to 72 hours (3 days). With the subdirectories option of UKUUCP, uumailclean will override these defaults if times are specified in the L.dirs file as 3rd and 4th arguments to the subdirectory entries. For example,

                C.hwcs  336     96      48

specifies a failtime of 96 hours and a warntime of 48 hours.

uumailclean maintains a list of mail files for which warning messages have already been sent out, so that the sender will only receive one warning message. This is normally the file warnlist.mail in the uucp spool directory.

Uumailclean will typically be started by cron(8).

FILES

/usr/spool/uucp                        uucp spool directory

/usr/spool/uucp/warnlist.mail  list of warned mail files

/usr/lib/uucp/L.dirs           list of subdirectories of spool

/usr/spool/uucp/warnlist.mail  list of warned mail files

AUTHOR

Jim Crammond

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