I have a Microsoft Mail postoffice being hosted on a W2K server box. My
clients are a mixture of W95, NT 4.0, and W2K workstations. For a variety
of reasons I do not wish to change over to a full-blown Exchange server
implementation at this time.
Some time ago my users started reporting that they were not receiving their
mail in a timely manner. The client are configured to automatically check
for mail every 10-15 minutes. Sometimes the messages are retrieved
immediately, at other times they may be delayed for several hours. At times
the user may retrieve his mail by manually send/receiving.
Without having anything substantial to back this up, my gut feeling is that
the postoffice database has become corrupted. This has been in use for
several years with little or no maintenance other than adding/deleting
accounts. The files have been moved to at least three separate machines
during this period. Are there any tools to verify and/or repair a
postoffice database?
My only other suspicion is that this might be related to W2K. Again, this
is without substantiation, but I notice that W2K seems to have dropped the
postoffice management tools that NT and W95 provided.
I would appreciate any help you may offer in troubleshooting this problem.
Thanks,
Michael Ellis
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
