On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Janos SUTO <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello Stephen,
>
>
> On 2013-09-17 19:54, Stephen Ingram wrote:
>
>> After having installed 0.1.24 I notice that the CPU usage is always
>> at 100%. /var/piler/stat/cpu.stat reports 96.63 which according to
>> mpstat is the %idle. That should mean a very low usage, correct? But
>> the bar in the UI is red and pegged near 100%. I see issue #127 that
>> appears resolved, but maybe not for this system? I'm running on CentOS
>> 6.
>>
>
> check if /var/piler has drwx------ (=700) permissions . If so, then you
> may fix it bx chmod 755 /var/piler/stat


/var/piler does have 700, but /var/piler/stat already has 755. So shouldn't
it work as is?


>
>  Also, one question on retention. Assuming old mail is imported into
>> the system. Say the message was originally received in 2008, does the
>> retention period begin with 2008 or from the time the message was
>> imported into mailpiler?
>>
>> From the information I have, I'm guessing the answer to the above is
>> from the date of import. If this is the case, can you selectively
>> purge archived messages based on the date of the mail?
>>
>
> not exactly. The retention period of imported emails is added to the
> 'sent' column in metadata calculated of the Date: header field of the
> email. So if you have 7 years of retention then your email in 2008
> will be retained to 2015.
>

This is excellent! That's exactly what I would want.

However note that no email will be purged unless you run pilerpurge.
> And currently you are free to change the retained value if you need
> a longer retention time.
>

The documentation implies that you can't change the retained value after
the mail is imported.


> Anyway I'm glad that you like the new release. If you need help
> fixing the admin group, then let me know.


Thanks as always. I let you know if I can't figure it out.

Steve

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