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RMM

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: MH.6.8
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NAME

rmm - remove messages

SYNOPSIS

rmm[+folder] [msgs][-help]

DESCRIPTION

Rmm removes the specified messages by renaming the messagefiles with preceding commas. Many sites consider files that start with a comma to be a temporary backup, and arrange for cron (8)to remove such files once a day.

If the user has a profile component such as

rmmproc: /bin/rm

then instead of simply renaming the message file,rmmwill call the named program to delete the file.Note that at most installations, cron (8) is told to remove files that begin with a comma once a night.

Some users of csh prefer the following:

alias rmm 'refile +d'

where folder +d is a folder for deleted messages, and

alias mexp 'rm `mhpath +d all`'

is used to ``expunge'' deleted messages.

The current message is not changed by rmm, so a next willadvance to the next message in the folder as expected.^$HOME/.mh_profile~^The user profile^Path:~^To determine the user's MH directory^Current-Folder:~^To find the default current folder^rmmproc:~^Program to delete the messagermf(1)`+folder' defaults to the current folder`msgs' defaults to curIf a folder is given, it will become the current folder.Since refile uses your rmmproc to delete the message,the rmmproc must NOT call refile withoutspecifying `-normmproc',or you will create an infinte loop.

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