I am wondering why Mutil is not packing my message base even when i said TRUE in mutil.ini. Im using A46/Win32.


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On 01 Jan 2021, Utopian Galt said the following...

I am wondering why Mutil is not packing my message base even when i said TRUE in mutil.ini. Im using A46/Win32.

Do you also have:

[PackMessageBases]

; No options for this function

In your .ini file as well? Even though there are no options, you may still need the stanza present.

Jay

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On 01 Jan 2021 at 12:03p, Utopian Galt pondered and said...

I am wondering why Mutil is not packing my message base even when i said TRUE in mutil.ini. Im using A46/Win32.

Just to clarify, by packing do you mean packing a JAM message base after messages have been purged?

Or are you talking about packing up messages and exporting them from your BBS to the rest of the world?

Just want to check we're on the same page before I respond further :)

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|11A|09> |10Just to clarify, by packing do you mean packing a JAM message base after|07
|11A|09> |10messages have been purged?|07
Yea, have like 2500 messages and the max limit is 1000. I am looking to purge some messages. Messages are not being purged.


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On 01 Jan 2021 at 01:49p, Utopian Galt pondered and said...

Yea, have like 2500 messages and the max limit is 1000. I am looking to purge some messages. Messages are not being purged.

OK thanks.

What does your .ini file look like that calls the purge function, and what
do the logs show, if you set them to logging level 3 this will help.

Also what options do you have purging options set at each message base level?

Max Msgs │ 0
Max Msg Age │ 0

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On 01 Jan 2021 at 01:49p, Utopian Galt pondered and said...

Yea, have like 2500 messages and the max limit is 1000. I am looking to purge some messages. Messages are not being purged.

Just re-reading this, so OK purging stuff to remove, you do this first then usually pack bases thereafter to remove any gaps in the JAM files.

Same questions as per my earlier reply apply, what does the ini look like
that you run, make sure you have logging at level 3, what do the logs show after you run MUTIL? ... and do you run this when no users are online and no other events are running, you should do that.

Here's how my purge.ini looks

[snip]


[General]

; list of functions to perform on startup

PurgeMessageBases = true

logfile=mutil.log

; Level 1 = basic
; Level 2 = verbose
; Level 3 = debug

loglevel=3

; logfile time stamp. defaults to NNN DD HH:II:SS if not set here
;logstamp = YYYYHHMMHHIISS

; Log roller type 0=roll by number of files/size 1=roll by number of days
logtype = 0

; number of log files to keep (0 to disable log rolling)
maxlogfiles = 10

; size of each log file in kilobytes
maxlogsize = 1000000

; ==========================================================================
; ==========================================================================
; ==========================================================================

[PurgeMessageBases]

; No options for this function


[snip]

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|11A|09> |10Also what options do you have purging options set at each message base|07
|11A|09> |10level?|07
|11A|09> |07
|11A|09> |10Max Msgs │ 0|07
|11A|09> |10Max Msg Age │ 0|07
does max msg age also make an impact as well? so you have to have both criteria for it to pack?


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