NAME

pmx-store-expire - Expire messages in PureMessage message store

SYNOPSIS

 pmx-store-expire [options]

DESCRIPTION

The pmx-store-expire program can archive and delete messages from the message store that are older than the specified number of days and/or hours. The archive filename is printed to the standard output after the archive is created.

The pmx-store-expire program finds messages that are older than the date and time specified, and creates symlinks in a temporary directory. When all the expired messages are located, the temporary directory is archived and deleted, along with the original messages.

Configuration of pmx-store-expire is read from the /opt/pmx6/etc/pmx.d/quarantine_expire.conf configuration file but you can override the configured settings by passing the below command line options.

OPTIONS

The following options are recognized by the pmx-store-expire program:

--archive dir
Specify the path to the archive directory. If not specified, the default is ~/archive directory.

--noarchive
Do not archive expired messages. Just delete them.

--days
``Expire'' (archive and/or delete) messages that are older than N days.

--hours
``Expire'' (archive and/or delete) messages that are older than N hours. For example, --days 0.5 is the same as --hours 12.

If both --days and --hours are specified, the number is simply added together. At least one of these options must be specified.

--store driver:<path>
This option is used to specify the message store. If not specified, it looks for the PMX_MESSAGE_STORE environment variable, specified using the following syntax: 
    PMX_MESSAGE_STORE=dir:/opt/pmx6/var/qdir

driver specifies the database back end to use. At this time, only ``dir'' is supported. Specify the location of the message store in the path switch. See PureMessage::MessageStore for details about the access.

--full-scan
Visit all messages in the store, searching for messages to expire. By default, shortcuts are taken based on the assumption that messages arrive in the store in date order.

--exec cmd
Specify the archive command if different from the default of: 
  tar -cPf - | [compressor]

For example:

  --exec "find . | cpio -o"

The list of expired files in the temporary directory is used as a standard input for the ``cpio -o'' command. The output of ``cpio -o'' is written to the archive file.

--quiet
Suppress warnings when using command-line arguments to override configured values.

SEE ALSO

the pmx-store manpage, the pmx-store-import manpage, the pmx-store-export manpage

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Sophos Group. All rights reserved. Sophos and PureMessage are trademarks of Sophos Plc and Sophos Group.