PTEXPIRE(8)

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version 3.12.3 · 4 versions
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💖 PTEXPIRE(8) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Cyrus IMAP manual — section 8, system admin girly territory. pull up a chair, we're cleaning up cache 🧹✨

✨ NAME ✨

ptexpire — Cyrus IMAP documentation, and also: a lil program that expires pts cache DB entries on command. like, you say jump, it says how high 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ptexpire [-C filename] [-E seconds] [ username ...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea: ptexpire sweeps the ptscache_db database and deletes every entry older than the expiry duration. and what's the expiry duration, you ask? it defaults to 5400 seconds — that's 3 hours, for the math girlies 🕒💖

want a different window? change it with the -E option. easy. iconique.

OR — and this is the other mode, bestie — if you pass it a list of usernames, it deletes just those usernames, and it does it immediately. no waiting around, no sweep, just instant. periodt. 💅

also ptexpire reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file, unless you tell it otherwise with -C. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -C config-file — use the config file config-file you specified instead of the default imapd.conf(5). your config, your rules 💜
  • -E seconds, `--expire-duration=seconds — set the expiry duration to seconds. want a shorter leash? longer? go off, set the number 🍓

🌈 FILES 🌈

  • /etc/imapd.conf

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

the Cyrus Team, and Nic Bernstein (Onlight). legends, honestly. 👑

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team

ok wait one more thing — this is version 3.12.3, dated Jul 15, 2026, from the PTEXPIRE(8) page, Cyrus IMAP. love that for us. bye bestie, go sweep some cache 💖✨🦋🎀
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