Hello Phil,

 >>> What kind of maintenance do you looking for?

 MvdV>> I don't want the message base to grow forever. So I have set Ftools
 MvdV>> to delete messages when they reach a certain age or if there are
 MvdV>> more then so many messages in an area. This works for the Hudson
 MvdV>> base, but messages in the Jam areas are not deleted. It just keeps
 MvdV>> growing.

 > ftools maint -d

 > in my case ftoolsw3 maint -d

 > the -d or /D switch will use the info in the area manager so if you
 > have it for days old or # of messages it will clean it all up...

Banging head against wall...

Ooops I had an "ftools maint /d /h" in the batch file there. No
idea why, but removing the "/h" solved my problem. ;-)

Reviving this echo IS a good idea.

Happy holidays,

Michiel

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