McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 8.6.0

Purge and optimize

Remove old items marked for deletion from the database and use optimization task to recover disk space being taken up by deleted database records.

Task
1 From the product's user interface, click Settings & Diagnostics | Detected Items.
The Detected Items page appears.
2 From the Local Database section, you can use:
Purge of old items frequency — To specify how frequently old items that are marked for deletion are deleted from the MSME database. The default value is set to Monthly.
Optimization frequency — To recover the disk space taken up by deleted database records. Based on the value set under Maximum item age (days), old records will be deleted if you have scheduled a purge task. After deleting these old records, MSME will still use the disk space specified under Disk space threshold (MB) field, even if the quarantine database has not reached the size limit. To optimize and shrink the database, schedule an optimization task. The default value is set to Monthly.
Always schedule an optimization task a few hours after you perform the purge task.
3 Click Edit Schedule to modify the schedule.
These tasks should be performed on a regular basis to maintain adequate free space in the database.