Have you recently restarted your services or have they shut down and
restarted recently at all? Explorer will not update or report the correct
file sizes of the databases until the services have been shut.
Assuming it really grew overnight and is still growing, you might want to
turn up smtp protocol logging and look for a mail loop. Inbox rules can
make an internal loop, a possibility as well. I have found Promodag
extremely useful and quick in spotting loops, because it can be used to
analyse internal as well as external traffic. It has pre-formatted reports
that have helped me determine which mailboxes have generated the most
traffic in a given time frame. You could download a working copy at
www.promodag.com. The eval copy is good for 15 days, which should be enough
time to hunt for a possible loop.
As far as your ims mailbox, the size reported will usually be incorrect
unless you are at the lastest service pack, with all associated hot fixes.
As far as looking inside the ims mailbox, do a search on the Technet DB for
"MDBVU32.EXE".
--
Michael Abbaticchio
Exchange Administrator
BHG
Quote:> Folks,
> My priv.edb file has gone from 6 GB to 15 GB overnight. What are things
> that I can look for to find out why? I looked at the mailbox resources
and
> see that my largest mailbox is just over 100MB, and after totalling up the
> mailboxes, I only get about 7 GB or so.
> The only other thing that I can see is that the IMS mailbox has about
> 450 MB. How do I get into this mysterious mailbox? (This is when I look
at
> the properties of the Private Information Store's Mailbox Resources tab,
it
> isn't listed under the mailbox resources "subfolder")
> Is there any place else that could be racking up space in the
priv.edb?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> --Marty
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