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From: jerryp@PACRAT.NPAC.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: # signs in inbox
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Date: 2 Dec 88 13:34:02 GMT
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> I notice that when I refile items from my inbox the orignal messages
> are stored in files with the same number but with a '#' sign in
> the first position.  Are these removed by mh?

On systems I know of, they're removed by cron(8), with a line in the crontab
file.  The line looks something like this:

	45 3 * * * find / -name "[,#]*" -type f -atime +7 -print | xargs rm -f

Once a day (at 3:45 AM) it searches the filesystem for files whose name
starts with "#" or "," and which haven't been read or written in 7 days.
It removes those files.

--Jerry Peek, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY
  jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu
  +1 315 443-1722