Re: Expiry of __MD5__ entries

Thomas Schürger wrote:
> i've noticed that __MD5__ entries are not processed by the cleanup
> command if they are "in use" (i.e., if the corresponding mails have
> not been removed, which is indicated by a word count of >= 1).
> Therefore, each processed mail leaves such entry in the database
> forever.

Yes that's correct.  There really should be a way to purge them after a 
safe period of time has elapsed.


> For people who like to refeed their old ham/spam to SP from time to
> time, this may be a good thing. For people who don't, it may be good
> to be able to remove such meta-data from the database after a while
> (my database currently has about 35000 __MD5__ entries). I know this
> is dangerous if those entries have been removed and the removed mails
> are nevertheless refed into SP.
> 
> Perhaps a special option could be added to the cleanup command that
> allows removing these entries by age?

That sounds like an excellent idea.  I'll look into that.

All the best,
++Brian


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