N Sj wrote:
> In our dbmail environment dbmail_headervalue 
> table has become very large and DBA is recommending running optimize table. 
> Then I ran into a thread in dbmail archives that  if the table 
> dbmail_headervalue is dropped and recreated then it will get re-populated by 
> running "dbmail-util -by", if that is possible then should we run OPTIMIZE 
> TABLE or just drop and recreate the table. 

Dropping, re-creating and re-populating the table is a valid procedure.
However, you will end up with the same sized table.

I've blogged about a better approach on blog.dbmail.eu.


> 
> Also we run "dbmail-util- a -y -vv" every night.
> 
> Thank you for your input.
> 
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