Reliant Octel 200 and Octel 300 Message Servers PB6001401 - Manual (Page 289)

Maintenance Commands 6-59
Octel Overture 200/300 Serenade 3.0 PB60014–01
The command can be canceled by entering Escape . The execution pauses, and the following message is
printed:
ABORT MPURGE (AND LEAVE MESSAGE UNPLAYABLE) .
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS? Y
@
Enter Y to abort the message purge. If the message purge is aborted, all messages that have already been
queued for deletion are deleted.
MPURGE Command for Message-by-Message Use
To delete a message from one mailbox, at the @ prompt, type
MPURGE x z Enter
In this command,
x is the message header number and z is the mailbox number.
Before checking whether the message is actually present in the mailbox, the Octel Overture 200/300
requests confirmation before deleting a message from the mailbox. For example, when a message is to be
deleted from one mailbox, the message server responds with the following:
DELETE MESSAGE 5001 FROM MAILBOX 2022
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS? Y
@
.
If an original recipient has forwarded the message, the forwarded instance of the message is not
deleted with the
MPURGE x y command. However, if a message is deleted from every mailbox
by the MPURGE x command, the message, but not the forwarding comments, is blocked and
cannot play.
If the message should be restricted from all delivery, two options for removing the message are available:
- Use MPURGE to delete the message from all mailboxes. If the message server is large, this could take
some time. The message could be heard by some users before the command to delete it from their
mailboxes is issued.
- Do an MBLOCK and then a single-mailbox MPURGE for each mailbox to which the message was sent.
If the message should go to some of the originally addressed mailboxes, then the options are as follows:
- Use MPURGE to delete the message from all mailboxes, and then create a new message with the
appropriate information. Send the message to the desired mailbox addresses.
- Use a single-mailbox MPURGE for each mailbox that should not receive the message. If any of these
mailboxes are configured for Auto-Copy, perform the message purge from the Auto-Copy target.
Forwarded messages and network messages are not deleted.