Re: [Exim] Wish for new "once" feature

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: michael, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Wish for new "once" feature
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:


> > one could always run exim_tidydb from cron.
>
> No; exim_tidydb is for tidying hints files in the spool/db directory.
> "Once" files are different and will be in other directories.


My mistake.

> What information would you want to tidy away? Surely you want to
> remember all the information that is ever put into the file?


If you use something like once_repeat 7d then you may wish to have things
older than seven days deleted. But I was not the person who made the
original request.

And on another thread, I hadn't realized that "exifind" made it to the
wish-list. On analogy to MH (the most Unix-ish of all MUAs), how about
calling it "exipick".

-j

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