[STATUS] NNTP support (10/17/02)

[Ken Murchison]

Dave McCracken wrote:
> 
> --On Friday, October 18, 2002 10:05:10 -0400 Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Right now, I'm using 'ipurge', but I have an 'expirenews' tool to purge
> > entries from netnews.db which I plan on adding the article delete code
> > to.
> 
> Have you gotten ipurge to be reliable?  I gave up on it because it kept
> deleting mail that didn't match its criteria, ie I specified greater than
> 14 days and it often deleted mail that was less than a day old.
> 
> And yes, I did report this behavior on the list a couple of times, but no
> one ever responded.

Do you remember which version of Cyrus?  I fixed a signed/unsigned
problem with ipurge back in 2.1.6 which was causing behavior similar to
what you describe.

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