DBMAIL-MAINTENANCE(1)
DBMAIL-MAINTENANCE(1)
NAME
dbmail-maintenance - Does a cleanup and integrity check of the Dbmail
mailsystem
SYNOPSIS
dbmail-maintenance [-ciflphd]
DESCRIPTION
The dbmail-maintenance program does a global database cleanup and
integrity check. All messages that are set for deletion will be marked for
final deletion (status 3).
All message that are marked for final deletion will be cleared from the
database. The integrity check will check for unconnected messageblocks,
unconnected messages and
unconnected mailboxes.
OPTIONS
-c performs internal cleaning-up on the tables
-i checks integrity
-f checks integrity and tries to fix problems
-ltimespan
clean up IP-log (used when IMAP/POP-before-SMTP is on)
timespan may contain hours, minutes or both. Every IP number logged before
the current date/time minus
this timespan will be removed from the table. The format for
timespan is <n>h<m>m with n the number of hours and m the number of minutes.
-p purge messages have the DELETE status set
-h show short help message then exit
-d set DELETE status for deleted messages
DIAGNOSTICS
Errors and notifications are send to the trace output as set in the
Dbmail configfile.
BUGS
No known bugs.
LICENSE
Dbmail and it's components are (c) IC&S and distributed under the GPL.
AUTHOR(S)
Eelco van Beek, Roel Rozendaal
IC&S
Koningsweg 4
3582 GE Utrecht
http://www.ic-s.nl
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 02:49 pm, Aaron Stone wrote:
> In DBMail 1.2.7, I have no recollection of what the options for
> dbmail-util were. Things are now much more consistent in 2.0.1 and will be
> even more so in 2.0.2.
>
> If you need me to take a look at 1.2.7, I can do that in the coming weeks.
>
> Aaron
>
> Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > nate wrote:
> >> Leonel Nunez wrote:
> >>>hmm, I am runing dbmail 1.2.7 and above and dbmail always >delete
> >>> messages (postgres & mysql)... it delete messages in >two stages, first
> >>> its mark message as deleted and second it >delete message. Maybe I
> >>> wrong?
> >>
> >> I don't think you are wrong at all. That's exactly what it is supposed
> >> to do, what I am saying is that it is not deleting the messages. The
> >> messages never get deleted. It doesn't matter how many times I run it
> >> they never get deleted. Is there any log to watch what dmail-util is
> >> doing? I tried running it with -v added onto -cpd, but to no avail. It
> >> just says maintenance done and no errors, but nothing ever gets deleted.
> >> Everything else is working, but this.
> >
> > The man page is clear on this, of only just barely: use the -y switch in
> > your cronjobs. Consider this a bug. If you specify -p you expect the
> > requested action to be taken. I guess Aaron is still working on cleaning
> > up the yes-to-all/no-to-all issue there. But behaviour of dbmail-util
> > seems to be somewhat inconsistent at the moment.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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