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"Daily Maintenance" is an internal process, which is executed automatically once per day, either when Hamster is started for the first time at a day or when day changes at midnight. It executes the functions, that are marked in this group.
If marked, "Daily Maintenance" creates a statistics over all local newsgroups.
If marked, "Daily Maintenance" automatically rebuilds a global list of newsgroups, that are available on any of the remote NNTP servers.
If marked, "Daily Maintenance" checks for newsgroups, that are not
read any more by any client.
If the "unread" period is longer than the value given in "Auto.
delete unused ...Pulls", all pulls for the group are deleted. If the
period is longer than "Auto.
delete unused ...Groups", the group itself is deleted.
If marked, "Daily Maintenance" deletes old articles.
If marked, "Daily Maintenance" deletes old history entries.
If marked, "Daily Maintenance" deletes old killfile log entries.
If marked, "Daily Maintenance" deletes old mail history entries.
Days to keep ... News: Articles
Number of days, that loaded articles are kept in local files. A value of 0
means "never delete".
Note: The period is based on the time, when the article was loaded, not its
Date: header.
Days to keep ... News: History
Number of days, that Message-IDs of loaded articles are kept in local "History" file. A value of 0 means "never delete".
Note: The "History" is a list of Message-IDs of already loaded articles, which is used to check, if an article has already been loaded from (another) newsserver.
Days to keep ... News: Killfile Log
Number of days, that entries are kept in local "Killfile Log" file. A value of 0 means "never delete".
Note: The "Killfile Log" is used to store the overview information of articles, which were not loaded due to scorefile settings.
Days to keep ... Mail: History
Number of days, that information about loaded mails is kept in local "Mail History" file. A value of 0 means "never delete".
FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) to use for the domain part of Message-IDs generated by Hamster.
Defines how the keyword is built for encrypting the entries in the password file. If one of these values changes, Hamster itself is not able to decrypt them again.
If set to 0 ("Use System-Info and Username"; default), the keyword is built from info about the system (e. g. Windows version and computer's name) and from the name of the user, that is currently logged in.
If set to 1 ("Only use System-Info"), the name of the currently logged on user is not used. This is the preferred setting, if Hamster is used with different login names.
If set to 2 ("Don't use System-Info and Username"), neither computer nor OS specific values are used.
NOTE: After changing this value, all password settings become invalid and have to be entered again!