The outbox feature requires persistent storage in order to store the messages and enable deduplication.
Table
To keep track of duplicate messages, the NHibernate implementation of the outbox requires the creation of an OutboxRecord table.
Deduplication record lifespan
By default, the NHibernate implementation keeps deduplication records for seven days and checks for purgeable records every minute.
Specify different values in the config file using timestamp strings:
<appSettings>
<add key="NServiceBus/Outbox/NHibernate/TimeToKeepDeduplicationData"
value="7.00:00:00" />
<add key="NServiceBus/Outbox/NHibernate/FrequencyToRunDeduplicationDataCleanup"
value="00:01:00" />
</appSettings>
By specifying a value of -00:00:00. (i.e. 1 millisecond, the value of Timeout.) for the NServiceBus/ app settings, the cleanup task is disabled. This is useful when an endpoint is scaled out and instances are competing to run the cleanup task.
It is advised to run the cleanup task on only one NServiceBus endpoint instance per database. Disable the cleanup task on all other NServiceBus endpoint instances for the most efficient cleanup execution.