Subj : Re: Struggling with message area maintenance
To   : Martin Foster
From : Tim Schattkowsky
Date : Wed Jan 26 2022 16:19:43

//Hello Martin,//

on *26.01.22* at *13:48:01* You wrote in rea *WINPOINT*
to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"Struggling with message area maintenance"*.

 MF> Hello Tim!

 MF> *** Tuesday 25.01.22 at 18:07:26, Tim Schattkowsky wrote to Martin
 MF> Foster:

 MF>>>>> I have just one area(Reports) configured for automatic maintenance
 MF>>>>> but as yet, I haven't managed to get anything to work.

 MF>>>>> I have messages in there which go back 81 days and I have the area
 MF>>>>> configured to delete messages which are older than 30 days. Nothing
 MF>>>>> ever gets deleted ???

 TS>>>> Checked in automation options that automatic maintennance is enabled?

 MF>>> Yes and it's enabled.

 MF>>> After playing about some more, I still can't get it to do anything
 MF>>> <shrug>.

 TS>> Did you also check the maintenance filter?

 MF> Yes and I still can't get it to do anything :((

Will try myself over the weekend. 

 TS>> By default, only read messages that are not adressed to you or written
 TS>> by you (both blue in the list) can be deleted according to the filter.

 MF> All messages in the "Reports" folder are addressed to "Sysop", so I guess
 MF> that's me.

Probably not flaged accordingly, because theyre not blue. Still, should only be a matter of the filter configuration.

Regards,
Tim
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