Peter Rabbitson wrote: > Peter Rabbitson wrote: >> I have never seen this happen before, and there were no dbmail >> upgrades either. What could have caused this and what did I possibly >> lose? >> >> .... >> Repairing DBMAIL physmessage integrity... >> Ok. Found [22409] unconnected physmessages >> Ok. Orphaned physmessages deleted. >> ... > > After asking some more around, it appears that during this particular > week (I run dbmail-util weekly instead of daily) someone deleted a user > like this: > > dbmail-users -d <username> > > The program ran for about 3 - 4 minutes and returned to the prompt. Can > the above messages about orphans be connected to such an action, and is > this normal?
Yes and yes. When a uses is deleted, the cascades will trigger deletion of mailboxes and messages. Physmessages however are only 'garbage-collected' by a dbmail-util run. They are not connected to messages by foreign keys. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
