K Kill a Message
This command will mark a message for deletion making any message inactive and unreadable. The actual message is not physically removed until that message base is packed.
Subcommand
| [msg. num.] | The message number you wish to kill or make inactive. This subcommand is only available if you are issuing the K command from a conference command prompt. |
Description
Eventually messages on your system will become outdated or no longer useful. You can delete any message on your system by using this command. When you kill a message you make it inactive but do not actually remove it from your system. In order to physically remove an inactive message from your system you need to pack the message base.
There are only two prompts where you may delete a message. At any conference command prompt and at the read message prompt.
If a message has a security option of RECEIVER ONLY, the recipient and the sender of the message are the only ones that may kill it. If a message is marked as SENDER PASSWORD, only the author of the message may kill it. Finally, on messages that are addressed as GROUP PASSWORD, only the users with the proper password may kill the message. The SysOp may kill any message even if the message is protected via password.
Examples
If you are at an End of Message Command prompt, type K to make the current message inactive.
Sometimes you may already know the number of the message you wish to delete. For example, if you wanted to delete message number 3292 in the current conference, type the following at the conference command prompt.
K 3292