Stephen, Yes, having any other main.Xbx file, implies that the mailbox is open.
I'd stop the process that is attempting to get the email and see if that closes things up (but I'm afraid it won't because it is already messed up). If no effect, then stop/start the POP3 service. If that process is checking the mailbox more than once every 5 minutes, then I would suggest that it be reset to this. Checking 'too quickly' is often a problem with email clients! There is really no need to check any more often than every 5 minutes. Since the number of messages is not going down, that tells me the POP3 client is not correctly communicating with the server. So stopping the client and the service, is pretty safe and should be effective. It is possible that some other access is being made to that user account (like Web MSG or IMAP4) and that could also place locks on the account that would give your symptoms. Try stop/starting those services, too. You can copy the main.mbx (or main.bak, if recent) and any other files to another user (or another folder) so you don't 'lose' them. If you get a 'share violation' when attempting to copy the files, that indicates that some process has it locked and you may have to restart the machine (unless you want to stop/start all services one at a time) to release any lock mechanisms. HTH Daniel Donnelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:13 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] MBX / ~BX question > Hello, > > When I look in a specific users folder I see > > lastlogin.in > main.~bx > main.mbx > main.uid > > My concern is the mbx/~bx. Should I assume it means an open mbx file? This > account is only used by our newletter/list management program to manage > bounces. The process that reads the pop account is constantly at 98% > processor utilization and the number of email addresses in the account are > not going down in number. Can anyone help me with what I need to do at this > point? I don't want to loose the accounts that have bounced so we can remove > them from our list. > > Thank you, > Steve > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
