NAME

       rmnews - expunge and remove news articles

SYNOPSIS

       rmnews

DESCRIPTION

       Rmnews  reads  article  data  from the standard input.  It then expunges and removes the listed articles.
       Rmnews is designed to be used by InterNetNews to remove canceled, superseded, and expired news articles.

       The input is processed as an INN expirerm file listing or an INN cancel stream written as a ``WC''  entry
       in  the  newsfeeds(5)  file.   This  data  consists  of lines of text, each containing a list of relative
       article pathnames, with a single space between entries.  If a listed file is contained in  an  IMAP  news
       mailbox, it is expunged out of that mailbox.  In any case, each listed file is unlinked.

       Rmnews  reads  its  configuration  options out of the imapd.conf(5) file.  The optional newsprefix option
       specifies a prefix to be prepended to newsgroup names to make the corresponding IMAP mailbox names.   The
       required  partition-news  option  specifies the pathname prefix to the IMAP news mailboxes.  The value of
       partition-news concatenated with the dots-to-slashes-converted value of newsprefix must be  the  pathname
       of the news spool directory.

FILES

       /etc/imapd.conf

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