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ezmlm-clean(1)		     General Commands Manual		  ezmlm-clean(1)

NAME
     ezmlm-clean - clean moderation directory

SYNOPSIS
     ezmlm-clean [-mMrRvV] dir

DESCRIPTION
     ezmlm-clean sends out messages for timed-out posts in the moderation direc-
     tory,  removes  timed-out	messages awaiting confirm, and removes stubs for
     rejected and accepted posts for the mailing list stored in dir.

     ezmlm-clean reads dir/modtime and extracts a  time-out  ``time''  in  hours
     from  it.	If ``time'' is 0 or dir/modtime is empty or doesn't exist, a de-
     fault of 120 h is used. If a time is given, it is limited to the range 24 h
     to 240 h.

     ezmlm-clean  then	looks  through	 dir/mod/accepted/,   dir/mod/rejected/,
     dir/mod/unconfirmed/,  and dir/mod/pending/ and removes message stubs older
     than ``time''. ``Time'' is a minimum retention time. Since  the  files  are
     processed	only  when  ezmlm-clean  is  run,  the delay before a message is
     timed-out may be substantially longer if the list	does  not  receive  many
     messages.

     Message  age determined by the time parsed from the file name, not from the
     creation time.  Thus, there is no good way to extend the life of  the  file
     by  e.g.  touching it. Also, files in these directories are not checked for
     the proper format. Thus, most non-message files in these  directories  will
     be deleted the first time ezmlm-clean is run.

     For  messages  in	dir/mod/pending/  and dir/mod/unconfirmed/, no action is
     taken on read-only files. Messages without the owner execute  bit	set  are
     silently  removed, as they are the result of incomplete ezmlm-store(1) exe-
     cutions.  For other messages in dir/mod/pending/,	a  notification  of  the
     time  out	is  sent to the sender, before the file is removed.  Messages in
     dir/mod/unconfirmed/, dir/mod/accepted/, and dir/mod/rejected/ are silently
     removed.

     ezmlm-clean logs errors to the mail log.  Re-delivery should be avoided  by
     suffixing any .qmail line invoking ezmlm-clean with '|| exit 0'.

     By default, the timed-out post is returned to the sender.	If dir/noreturn-
     posts exists, it switches the default to discard the timed-out post.  Note:
     ezmlm-clean  is  normally	run  from both dir/editor and dir/moderator.  To
     suppress sender notification, either dir/noreturnposts needs  to  exist  or
     the -R option needs to be specified for all invocations of ezmlm-clean.

     If  dir/qmqpservers exists, ezmlm-clean will use qmail-qmqp(1) to send mes-
     sages.

OPTIONS
     -m     (Default.)	The timed-out post is sent as a MIME enclosure.

     -M     The timed-out post is appended to the message.

     -r     (Default.)	The timed-out post is returned to sender.

     -R     The timed-out post is discarded without sender notification.

     -v     Display ezmlm-clean version information.

     -V     Display ezmlm-clean version information.

CHARACTER SETS
     If dir/charset exists, ezmlm-clean will use the character	set  listed  for
     all messages. Otherwise, the default ``us-ascii'' will be used. The charac-
     ter  set can be suffixed by ``:'' followed by a code. If the code is ``Q'',
     outgoing messages are sent as ``Quoted-Printable'', if it is ``B'' they are
     sent ``base64'' encoded.  Otherwise, text is sent as is.

SEE ALSO
     ezmlm-confirm(1),	 ezmlm-make(1),    ezmlm-moderate(1),	 ezmlm-store(1),
     ezmlm(5)

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