> Something odd just happened to lately. This morning an employee called > and said that they could not get into their e-mail via the web or Outlook. > So I checked their user folder and there was a lock file on the Junk > Mail.mbx file (ie Junk Mail.~bx). So I got rid of the lock file and she > could get in. I noticed at that time however, that the Junk Mail.mbx file > was roughly 600MB large. I mentioned this and she said that she doesn't > even use the Junk Mail setting, but Outlook 2003 always puts that folder > there. She left for the day to take care of some things so I figured I > would see why here Junk Mail file was getting so large....but when I look at > it this time it was 8.4 GB large. CRAP! But she was already gone for the > day. Odd...so I look to see what handles were open and it appears that > IMAP432D.exe had been holding on to this file since 8:04 AM this morning. > So I killed both handles that were holding on to this file and to it's UID > file. I then tried to use ultraedit to open the file, but had no luck. I > finally deleted the thing because it was taking up some serious disk space.
This happens 3 times now to me during the last 3 weeks. I didn't notice the lock file, but imap makes this .mbx very big (some GB) and uses all processor time. After that the mailbox is unuseable, even if i stop this process. I do this by stopping IMAP4D32 service, deleting the .mbx and .uid (restore an older one), and starting imap again. I can`t view or accesss the big file, so i deleted it. Win2000 SP4 fully patched, IMail 8.10 HF2, most clients use IMAP. Hermann 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/
