Maintenance

Like many systems, DBMail is optimised for reliability, efficiency and forgiveness, to keep it at optimum performance it requires occasional maintenance.

The maintenance app is dbmail-util and regularly running this is good practice, depending on your requirements this might be daily, weekly or monthly.

If you run a modest system then you might choose to run dbmail-util monthly with the -a flag checking for message integrity, body/header/envelope cache check, setting the delete status for deleted messages, purging deleted messages, and cleaning up the database. If for example you wanted to keep all deleted messages you might run the app without the -p purge flag.

For larger systems each option can be applied separately, see dbmail-util -h for details.

From version 3 Database schema upgrades are automatic, though if you have a large database you might prefer to upgrade manually.

Normal database monitoring and maintenance are outside the scope of DBMail, see the respective documentation for more information.