The purge is not working for me. In "Aide" appears one message saying that say "105 messages were delete" but really they are not.

I monitored the server and appear many temporary files in data directory until no disk space (of 16GBytes). Stay some time like that and return to 16Gbytes free space. But the emails that must been deleted remained. Two days like that.

 

 

Sun May 17 2026 04:39:11 EDT from Motobike Subject: Re: Size of Data Files.

This works really good for me. I have different purge rules for different folders. The purge will done with

 

 

 

Will done on Auto-Purge Job. 

 

 

My Citadel Version is 1022 now for a long time. 

 

If you want know more about my settings, let me know. 

Greeintngs

Mike

 

So Mai 17 2026 04:03:52 EDT von luisgo Betreff: Re: Size of Data Files.

I think you are providing a semi-featured Citadel. The purge is not working. It supposed to purge the messages from 1st of February and it is not doing.

 

 

 

Mon May 11 2026 10:56:43 EDT from Motobike Subject: Re: Size of Data Files.

You can define a purge rule for every folder. Also a rule to move it to archive. 

 

So Mai 10 2026 04:53:26 EDT von luisgo Betreff: Re: Size of Data Files.

I want to shrink by purging the older emails previous deleted manually. I has the Auto-Purge setting.

I suppose that I can not do it configuring "Default message expire policy for private mailboxes". Or can I? I suppose that is to delete and purge active messages.

Seldom times appear notifications of purged messages at Aide and if so only one purged message or EEDI (??)

Mon May 04 2026 19:25:09 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Size of Data Files.

 

Are there some way to shrink the size of the main citadel data file without compromizing the citadel stability?

Do you have the auto-purger configured to delete "old" messages?

You can do this at the site-wide level, or on an individual room (such as your trash folder).

If new data is arriving at approximately the same rate old data is expiring, then yes, eventually you will reach an equilibrium where the database files stabilize in size.

Do look in the Aide room for messages confirming this.  The helpful Citadel Aide will tell you how many objects are being deleted during the nightly purger run.

 

 

 

 

 

I upgraded my VPS plan. Now it is working Ok. I think that it was mainly the passing of 2 cores to 4 cores that fixed the problem. 3GBytes RAM->4 GBytes. +25GBytes of Disk. 

sáb mai 23 2026 23:37:03 EDT de luisgo Assunto: Re: Size of Data Files.

The purge is not working for me. In "Aide" appears one message saying that say "105 messages were delete" but really they are not.

I monitored the server and appear many temporary files in data directory until no disk space (of 16GBytes). Stay some time like that and return to 16Gbytes free space. But the emails that must been deleted remained. Two days like that.

 

 

Sun May 17 2026 04:39:11 EDT from Motobike Subject: Re: Size of Data Files.

This works really good for me. I have different purge rules for different folders. The purge will done with

 

 

 

Will done on Auto-Purge Job. 

 

 

My Citadel Version is 1022 now for a long time. 

 

If you want know more about my settings, let me know. 

Greeintngs

Mike

 

So Mai 17 2026 04:03:52 EDT von luisgo Betreff: Re: Size of Data Files.

I think you are providing a semi-featured Citadel. The purge is not working. It supposed to purge the messages from 1st of February and it is not doing.

 

 

 

Mon May 11 2026 10:56:43 EDT from Motobike Subject: Re: Size of Data Files.

You can define a purge rule for every folder. Also a rule to move it to archive. 

 

So Mai 10 2026 04:53:26 EDT von luisgo Betreff: Re: Size of Data Files.

I want to shrink by purging the older emails previous deleted manually. I has the Auto-Purge setting.

I suppose that I can not do it configuring "Default message expire policy for private mailboxes". Or can I? I suppose that is to delete and purge active messages.

Seldom times appear notifications of purged messages at Aide and if so only one purged message or EEDI (??)

Mon May 04 2026 19:25:09 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Size of Data Files.

 

Are there some way to shrink the size of the main citadel data file without compromizing the citadel stability?

Do you have the auto-purger configured to delete "old" messages?

You can do this at the site-wide level, or on an individual room (such as your trash folder).

If new data is arriving at approximately the same rate old data is expiring, then yes, eventually you will reach an equilibrium where the database files stabilize in size.

Do look in the Aide room for messages confirming this.  The helpful Citadel Aide will tell you how many objects are being deleted during the nightly purger run.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi all,

I am unable to upgrade to the latest version of citadel

 

error:

Testing for OpenSSL...

Testing for iconv...

iconv.h is present and requires no additional libraries

Testing for lresolv...

Testing for lintl...

Testing for lcrypt...

Testing for Berkeley DB...

Berkeley DB v18.0 or newer not found

Testing for LMDB...

LMDB not found

ERROR: No compatible database backend (Berkeley DB >= 18 or LMDB) was found.

 Citadel Easy Install is aborting.

 The last few lines above this message may indicate what went wrong.

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