---
name: "rmnews"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "cyrus-nntpd"
version: "2.4.17+nocaldav-0+deb8u2"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rmnews"
---

# rmnews(8)

expunge and remove news articles

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## NAME

rmnews - expunge and remove news articles

## SYNOPSIS

**rmnews**

## DESCRIPTION

*Rmnews* reads article data from the standard input. It then expunges and removes the listed articles. *Rmnews* is designed to be used by InterNetNews to remove canceled, superseded, and expired news articles.

The input is processed as an INN  *expirerm* file listing or an INN cancel stream written as a \`\`WC'' entry in the [*newsfeeds*(5)](/newsfeeds/5.md) file.  This data consists of lines of text, each containing a list of relative article pathnames, with a single space between entries.  If a listed file is contained in an IMAP news mailbox, it is expunged out of that mailbox.  In any case, each listed file is unlinked.

*Rmnews* reads its configuration options out of the [*imapd.conf*(5)](/imapd.conf/5.md) file.  The optional *newsprefix* option specifies a prefix to be prepended to newsgroup names to make the corresponding IMAP mailbox names. The required *partition-news* option specifies the pathname prefix to the IMAP news mailboxes.  The value of *partition-news* concatenated with the dots-to-slashes-converted value of *newsprefix* must be the pathname of the news spool directory.

## FILES

- **/etc/imapd.conf**