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From: ault@PAWL.RPI.EDU (James Ault)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: # signs in inbox
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Date: 30 Dec 88 15:21:07 GMT
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> > I notice that when I refile items from my inbox the orignal messages
> > are stored in files with the same number but with a '#' sign in
> > the first position.  Are these removed by mh?

> On systems I know of, they're removed by cron(8), with a line in the crontab
> file.  The line looks something like this:

> 	45 3 * * * find / -name "[,#]*" -type f -atime +7 -print | xargs rm -f

> Once a day (at 3:45 AM) it searches the filesystem for files whose name
> starts with "#" or "," and which haven't been read or written in 7 days.
> It removes those files.

> --Jerry Peek, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY
>   jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu

These files can be removed by MH if you specify it in your .mh_profile:
 
 rmmproc:    /bin/rm

I believe this will replace the default of /bin/mv.

  --Jim Ault, Postmaster, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
    ault@itsgw.rpi.edu                        ault@rpitsgw.BITNET