Glad to hear it wasn't just me - I think. Which mail client were they using?
Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hermann > Strassner > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMAP Serve wouldn't let go a mailbox > > > > 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/ > 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/
