Controlling Mailbox Cleanup

Controlling Mailbox Cleanup

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You can automatically clean up deleted messages from mailboxes by setting the garbage collection properties on the mailbox. To limit how long the store keeps deleted mail, set the IMailboxStore::DaysBeforeGarbageCollection property to the number of days to keep the deleted mail. When no value is set, the global mailbox store setting is used.

To require that the store is backed up before it removes deleted mail, set the IMailboxStore::GarbageCollectionOnlyAfterBackup property to True.

Finally, to prevent the store from removing deleted mail, set the IMailboxStore::OverrideStoreGarbageCollection property to True.

For more information, see the DaysBeforeDeletedMailboxCleanup property on the IMailboxStoreDB interface.

Example

This example cleans up files seven days after a backup.

Visual Basic

Sub Set_Cleanup(recipname As String, _
                DomainName As String)

'DomainName is something like "DC=MYDOMAIN3,DC=example,DC=com"
'recipname is something like "jamessmith"

Dim objUser As IADsUser
Dim objMailbox As CDOEXM.IMailboxStore

Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://CN=" + recipname + _
                        ",CN=users," + DomainName)

Set objMailbox = objUser
If objMailbox.HomeMDB = "" Then
   MsgBox "No mailbox found."
Else
   objMailbox.OverrideStoreGarbageCollection = True
   objMailbox.GarbageCollectOnlyAfterBackup = True
   objMailbox.DaysBeforeGarbageCollection = 7
   'commit the changes
   objUser.SetInfo
End If

End Sub

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