Rebuild resets the expire date for all current messages (at least with
the -h option and with -s, I believe.) It's designed to repair a
corrupted database (and to compact a really large newsbase.) So in
essence you'll never actually expire any messages unless they have an
Expires date in the header. Try remming out that line, wait 12 days
and you should get rid of most of the database. Of course, you'll
have to contend with the 200 new messages each day, but it WILL shrink
eventually. Also Tim Middleton's NNIGN is handy to keep track of how
much free space is present in your OS/2 database (is there a DOS
port?) Tim writes some really handy stuff for Yarn.
>My configfile tells yarn to keep messages 12 days, max-keep 30 days.
>Although I import a few hundred news per day, expire will only delete less than 20
>messages per day.
>
>What have I done wrong?
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