FBB HouseKeeping – Lifetime Expiry Tuning

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House Keeping Lifetime

Housekeeping aims to keep the BBS clean and easy to navigate for users by pruning messages that are no longer useful.

Some example scenarios:

• Messages that are only applicable for their audience on the day they are sent
  • Daily solar forecast, 1 day expiry.
  • Daily Earthquake Alert & WX bulletins, 1 day expiry
  • Daily propagation forecasts, 1 day expiry.
• Your BBS may be configured to service/route wormhole-traversing-mail for a geographical region that is “out of scope” for your own BBS
  • 1 day expiry is enough for mine to have forwarded @USA bulletins to my American partners.

To keep the “THEMES” and “L” listings appetisingly short, concise and useful for users, I have shared my own settings that maintains a manageable active message count of approximately 250-300 messages at any one time.

EPURMESS.INI

The tail end of FBB’s $PREFIX/etc/ax25/fbb/epurmess.ini

A table is shown below this explaining what these parameters mean.

# Priv Bull (0=erased 1=archived)"
  1        1
#
# Cleaning parameters for private mail (in days)
#
# PN -> PX
30
#
# PY -> PX
30
#
# PF -> PK
30
#
# PX -> PK
1
#
# PK -> PA
1
#
# Cleaning parameters for bulletins (in days)
# X - expired, $ - forwarded 
# BN -> BX
21
#
# B$ -> BX
21
#
# BY -> BX
21
#
# BF -> BX
21
#
# BX -> BK
1
#
# BK -> BA
1

Type	From State	To State	Days
Personal	Unread (N)	Expired (X)	30 days
Personal	Read (Y)	Expired (X)	30 days
Personal	Forwarded (F)	Killed (K)	30 days
Personal	Expired (X)	Killed (K)	1 day
Personal	Killed (K)	Archived (A)	1 day
Bulletin	Unread (N)	Expired (X)	21 days
Bulletin	Fwd Queued ($)	Expired (X)	21 days
Bulletin	Forwarded (F)	Expired (X)	21 days
Bulletin	Expired (X)	Killed (K)	1 day
Bulletin	Killed (K)	Archived (A)	1 day

Epurmess.ini Overrides

The tail end of FBB’s $PREFIX/etc/ax25/fbb/epurmess.ini

# Special overrides :
#
# Type To  Number_of_days
@ USA 1
@ GBR 1
> ALERT 1
> SOLAR 1
> EQUAKE 1
> WEER 1
> WX 1
> TODAY 1
> HUMOR 1
> FBBLOG 1
> PROP 1
> PROPA 1
> TECH 6
> PIC 6
> TECHNI 6
> KEP 6
> KEPS 6
> LINUX 6
> DXNEWS 14
> NEWS 14
> AGCW 14
> LETTER 14
> BCAST 14