Best way to compact mailfiles?

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What is the best way to compact mailfiles for users ?

  • Everyday with compact -b (Then the user asks why his mailfile wont get smaller after deleting mails)

  • Everyday with compact -B (Not recommended for every day but the only solution for recovering unused space)

What do you use ? Any tips ?

Thanks

Sascha

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Subject: Re: Best way to compact mailfiles ?

I use compact -B -S10 daily to compact all mail databases that have at least 10% unused space.Then compact -B weekly (sunday) to reduce space every databases.

Use program document in domino directory to run automatically.

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Subject: I’d also do a -c every now and then

It helps solve small corruption issues, so I’d run that once a week instead of the -B option. Or once a month, for that matter.