Likely a mail loop. Look in the mailbox resources and see if one mailbox is extraordinarily large, if so, remove its SMTP address. Add a Prohibit Send and Receive limit to all mailboxes and by policy to the store. Implement the registry hack to allow the store to grow to 17GB, mount the store, then delete the instances of looping message from the mailbox.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chinnery, Paul Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:48 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Priv grows 4 gig in 4 hours Windows Server 2000 Exchange Std. 2000 sp3 Total number of users 150 Our priv store hit it's maximum limit of 16 gig on Sunday. Looking through the event logs I found that at 6 AM, after the maintenance had finished, Exch reported free space of 3968 megs. At 10 AM, the store limit had been hit. I am at a loss to understand how our store grew by about 4 gigabytes in 4 hours. Our's is not a particularly active environment, no more than what you would see with 150 users (about half of which use email quite a lot). Our anti-spam software (Mail Frontier, now SonicWall) gets the email first and then passes it onto the server so I don't believe it was a "spam flood." Can anyone shed some light onto where I might look for a cause for this? BTW, the other interesting thing about this was that the store did not dismount and people were able to connect. But mail delivery was slow. Paul Chinnery Network Administrator Memorial Medical Center _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
