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.
next prev parent 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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