How Messages are Removed from the Message Store
(Doc ID 1399613.1)
Last updated on JANUARY 03, 2023
Applies to:
Oracle Communications Messaging Server - Version 6.2.0 and laterInformation in this document applies to any platform.
Purpose
Frequently asked questions about message expiration, delete/expunge, and cleanup; imexpire and impurge.
Questions and Answers
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In this Document
| Purpose |
| Questions and Answers |
| Which processes do expiration, expunge, and cleanup? |
| Delete, Expunge, Move to trash, Compact, Expire, Cleanup, Purge... what??? |
| Delete |
| Expunge / Close |
| Move to Trash |
| Compact a folder |
| Expiration |
| Cleanup and Purge |
| Do not confuse with imsimta purge or msuserpurge |
| When are messages removed? |
| store.cleanupsize |
| store.cleanupage |
| Should I change store.cleanupsize? |
| mboxutil -C feature added in 7.0.5 |
| How much space is being used by messages waiting to be cleaned up? |
| Enhancement request 19731331 - force cleanup based on previous cleanup date/time |
| How to determine whether you need to do mboxutil -C |
| Or try it and see |
| How to workaround, not having mboxutil -C, on 7.0.4 and earlier |
| How to immediately cleanup a user/folder after massive expire/delete/expunge? |
| Messages are not being removed |
| How To Make imexpire Go Faster? |
| Are there any default expiration rules? |
| What must be restarted after making config changes? |
| Changing store.cleanupage or store.cleanupsize has no effect |
| Test your expiration rules! |
| How to Recover Deleted and Expunged Mail Messages? |
| How to observe that a message is flagged as deleted or expunged |
| Do deleted messages count against the user's quota? |
| Example imcheck -e and imcheck -q output |
| Can I force it to cleanup expunged messages from a folder? |
| What is impurge doing? Is it taking too long? Is it impacting performance? Can I limit the number of threads? |
| Transaction log file accumulation in mboxlist while impurge is running |
| Can I make impurge run at midnight like it did in 6.3 and before? |
| impurge unlinking files has a significant performance impact on the system |
| When does impurge decide to purge cache files and annotation records? |
| If you opt to let impurge clean it up, when will that happen? |
| References |