Wait a sec. I'm sure that the 170,000-odd messages in my database being seen as null, shouldn't be. This dbmail installation only has one account (it's my workstation), and I only have about 180,000 messages total stored. There's no way 170,000 of them should be purged.
-sri On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:50:19PM +0100, Paul J Stevens wrote: > Will fix this. > > Ilja Booij wrote: > >On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:05:00 +0100, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Ok. I checked the source. > >> > >>Looks like do_null_messages correctly finds all the NULL messages, and > >>does set > >>MESSAGE_STATUS_ERROR on all these messages. But there's no code to > >>actually > >>flush all those messages from the database. I suspect that somewhere in > >>the > >>past, this was handled subtly different. > >> > >>Aaron, Ilja: any reason why do_null_messages calls db_set_message_status > >>to set > >>MESSAGE_STATUS_ERROR instead of MESSAGE_STATUS_PURGE? > > > > > >I guess it does this for purely historical reasons. I checked some old > >code from the 1.2 branch, and it does exactly the same there. It would > >certainly be better to set the status to MESSAGE_STATUS_PURGE. > > > >Ilja > >_______________________________________________ > >Dbmail mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Paul Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 > The Netherlands_______________________________________www.nfg.nl > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail -- Sri Gupta ICQ: 9208831 | AIM: Oopszie | Yahoo IM: Oopsz | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iPlur.com/ -- Avarice. Gluttony. Envy. Lust. Pride. Sloth. Wrath. The seven deadly sins. Collect them all!
