PTEXPIRE(8)

💖 PTEXPIRE(8) 💖

okay so this is the Cyrus IMAP manual page for ptexpire, bestie ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ptexpire — Cyrus IMAP documentation

it's the program that expires pts cache DB entries, on command. like, you tell it to, and it does. iconique behavior honestly 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ptexpire sweeps the ptscache_db database and deletes every entry that's older than the expiry duration. and what's the expiry duration, you ask? it defaults to 5400 seconds, which is 3 hours for the people who don't wanna do math 💅 and if you want it to be something else, you change it with the -E option. easy.

but wait, there's a whole other mode. if you pass it a list of usernames instead, it skips the sweeping thing entirely and just deletes those usernames, immediately. no waiting, no timer, just gone. periodt. 😭

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

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -C config-file — use the specified configuration file config-file instead of the default imapd.conf(5). it's giving "i brought my own config" energy 🫶
• -E seconds, --expire-duration=seconds — set the expiry duration to seconds. that's the number. the seconds. your call, your rules ⭐

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /etc/imapd.conf

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• imapd.conf(5)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight) — absolute legends, fr fr 💜

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🧚 COPYRIGHT 🧚

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🎀✨

version 3.12.4, dated Sep 09, 2026 — sending you off with all the love, go expire those cache entries, you main character 💖🦋🌸