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From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Deleting Expired Mail
Date: 15 Jul 1996 07:41:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafk9w6oyyf.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Joe Wells's message of 14 Jul 1996 16:38:41 -0400

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

  Lars> When an expirable article reaches a certain age, it is
  Lars> deleted.

>>>>> On 14 Jul 1996 16:38:41 -0400, Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu> said:

  Joe> Is this "age" the amount of time since the message reached you
  Joe> or the amount of time since it was marked expirable?

For nnml, this is the modified-time of the underlying file.  (For nnmh
too, I guess.)  I don't know what time is being used for other
backends, though.  AFAIK this area is considered to be open for
improvement -- IMHO using the modified-time of the file is a
suboptimal solution.

kai
-- 
Life is hard and then you die.


  reply	other threads:[~1996-07-15  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-07-12 12:55 Eric Swenson
1996-07-14 13:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-07-14 20:38   ` Joe Wells
1996-07-15  5:41     ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
1996-07-14 18:35 ` Kai Grossjohann

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