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       superseded, and expired news articles.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