That's all right. Good to know before I move it into production. 

Thanks,

Kovid.

On Sunday 11 June 2006 13:29, Paul J Stevens wrote:
> Grrr. Sigh. Well, it *is* in svn-trunk, and it's in the 2.0 branch. And
> Aaron has been busy reworking and expanding the base-documentation using
> asciidoc (you'll like what he's doing), and it *does* appear to have
> slipped from the release you're looking at. Humble apologies if I
> sounded harsh. ;-)=
>
> Core of the problem here is unexpected behaviour. This is a FAQ if ever
> there has been a faq: dbmail-util will never commit actions without
> explicit consent. IMO _unix_ convention suggests otherwise. But for now
> _dbmail_ legacy prevails.
>
> Kovid Goyal wrote:
> > Oh no its not.
> >
> > DBMAIL-UTIL(8)
> > DBMAIL-UTIL(8)
> >
> >
> >
> > NAME
> >        dbmail-util - maintains the integrity and cleanliness of the
> > DBMail datatables.
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> >        dbmail-util [-cturpd] [-l time] [-qvVh] [-f configFile]
> >
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> >        The dbmail-util program does a global database  cleanup  and 
> > integrity check.  All messages that are set for deletion will be marked
> > for final deletion (status 3). All message that are  marked  for  final 
> > deletion will  be  cleared from the database. The integrity check will
> > check for unconnected messageblocks, unconnected messages and 
> > unconnected  mail- boxes.
> >
> >
> > OPTIONS
> >        -c     clean up unlinked message entries
> >
> >        -t     test for message integrity
> >
> >        -u     null message check
> >
> >        -r     repair any integrity problems
> >
> >        -p     purge messages have the DELETE status set
> >
> >        -d     set DELETE status for deleted messages
> >
> >        -l time
> >               clear the IP log used for IMAP/POP-before-SMTP the time is
> > spec- ified as <hours>h<minutes>m (don't include the  angle  brackets,
> > though)
> >
> >        -i     Enter an interactive user management console.
> >
> >
> > COMMON OPTIONS
> >        -f configfile
> >               Specify  an  alternate  config file. The utilities are
> > currently hardcoded to use /etc/dbmail.conf for their  configs,  and 
> > will halt  if  the config file cannot be found. Use the -f configfile
> > option to specify your system's preferred config file  location.
> >
> >        -q     Quietly  skip  interactive  prompts  and helpful status
> > messages which would otherwise be printed to stdout.   Use  two  -q's  to
> > silence errors which would otherwise be printed to stderr.
> >
> >        -v     Operate  verbosely.   Some  of the utilities in the DBMail
> > suite can take two -v's for extra verbosity. Those which don't  under-
> > stand  this  convention won't complain about having the extra -v and will
> > simply operate at their normal verbosity.
> >
> >        -V     Show the version and copyright, then exit.
> >
> >        -h     Show a brief summary of options, then exit.
> >
> >
> > DIAGNOSTICS
> >        Errors and notifications are send to the trace output  as  set  in
> >  the dbmail.conf file.
> >
> >
> > BUGS
> >        No known bugs.
> >
> > On Sunday 11 June 2006 11:54, Paul J Stevens wrote:
> >> Kovid Goyal wrote:
> >>> Thanks, that did it. The -y option doesn't seem to be in the man page
> >>> though.
> >>
> >> Oh yes it is.

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