My nightly maint script using "PurgeMessageBases = true" seems to be deleting messages from netmail and another folder based on user names. Is there an option to prevent this? I only want msgs deleted using the settings from MessageBase Editor i.e. Max Msgs/Max Msg Age.

I noticed this on mystic version a47 and the latest a48 alpha.

here's a safe link to a log snippet.

https://1drv.ms/t/s!Ao5314L44bDciLBGtfdQChnuuPZYGA?e=aj9ziw

help!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/02/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
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On 04 Feb 2022 at 03:33p, Ratz pondered and said...

My nightly maint script using "PurgeMessageBases = true" seems to be deleting messages from netmail and another folder based on user names.
Is there an option to prevent this? I only want msgs deleted using the settings from MessageBase Editor i.e. Max Msgs/Max Msg Age.

I'm not yet running this version but that function I would have thought should obey the settings of each base, so check you have those purge settings set to 0 for the bases you don't want it to touch.

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I'm not yet running this version but that function I would have thought should obey the settings of each base, so check you have those purge settings set to 0 for the bases you don't want it to touch.

I did restore my msgs from a backup and run FilePack with both set to zero and it did it again. I'm not sure where to even look for a setting for this.

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