EXPIRE.CTL(5) InterNetNews Documentation EXPIRE.CTL(5) (NAME) expire.ctl - INN (DESCRIPTION) pathetc/expire.ctl expire expireover . : . ( CNFS) "/remember/" ( ) . -N expire expireover . ("#") . . . (news spool) . ( remembertrash inn.conf true ). : /remember/: Message-ID ( ) spool . ( spool .) "never" "0" spool . ( news spool : "/remember/" "0" expire news.daily crontab "notdaily" expire.ctl . Message-ID .) . ( artcutoff inn.conf(5) -c innd(8) ) . artcutoff "10" "/remember/" "11" . (colon) : :::: groupbaseexpiry inn.conf true ( ) : ::: groupbaseexpiry . . uwildmat . ( "*" ) . : M Only moderated groups U Only unmoderated groups A All groups X Remove the article from all groups it appears in "M" "U" "A" . "X" . . (crosspost) . "X" . ( -e expireoverview .) groupbaseexpiry false . storage.conf "*" . . ( -p expire(8) expireover(8) ). ( "8.5" expire expireover news.daily ) "never". . Expires . Expires . "never" . "never" Expires . "never" Expires . . Expires . . ( "*" "A" "*") . ( "/remember/") (override) . Expires . "never" "365" . Expires . (EXAMPLES) groupbaseexpiry true (): # Keep expired article history for 11 days, matching artcutoff # plus one. /remember/:11 # Most articles stay for two weeks, ignoring Expires header fields. *:A:14:14:14 # Accept Expires header fields in moderated newsgroups for up to # a year, and retain moderated newsgroups for a bit longer. *:M:1:30:365 # Keep local newsgroups for a long time and local project # newsgroups forever. example.*:A:1:90:90 example.project.*:A:never:never:never groupbaseexpiry false : # Keep expired article history for 11 days, matching artcutoff # plus one. /remember/:11 # Set a default expiration of seven days and honour Expires header # fields within reasonable limits. *:1:7:35 # Class 0 is retained for two weeks and honor Expires header fields # within reasonable limits. 0:1:14:65 (HISTORY) Rich $alz InterNetNews . POD Russ Allbery . (SEE ALSO) expire(8), expireover(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), libinn_uwildmat(3), news.daily(8), storage.conf(5). INN 2.7.4 2023-03-07 EXPIRE.CTL(5)