> > Do you have any idea what I should > > do so that more messages are being purged? Especially the retention > > period seems suspect I think... > For already archived spam, you should identify them in the metadata table, eg. check the subject > field. Then set the retained column for such messages only to the past, eg. a yesterday > timestamp, and pilerpurge will take care of them.
Hello Janos, Seeing your above reply to Marina's post regarding purging data brought me back to an issue we were trying to clear up (we have a certain email "from" address we'd like purged, as it is not required in the archive). However, we lacked the foresight to set up retention rules prior to the email account spewing out millions of emails. I figured I'd just go in and manually set the retention date back in the past as you suggest, however I found the following note on http://www.mailpiler.org/wiki/current:administering-piler: ------ Note that the retention period is included in the per message verification digest, so the retention period should not be changed after the message has been archived. ------ I've run a test on the database by selecting one email and changing the retention period to the past and running pilerpurge -d to see the effect, and it says it will remove it. If this is true, what are the ramifications of this and the message verification digest no longer aligning? Is this a viable method to get rid of the cruft we've accumulated and would like to purge? Thank you.
