paul3461000
MIS
Here's a couple of hints regardig things I learned about Outlook Express recently.
#1
A user was having difficulting sending emails. The message would never leave the outbox and would never be put in the sent items folder but the recipient would receive the email; usally multiple times.
After some trouble-shooting I found that this user's sent items folder was over 2GB. The sent items folder was at its limit so the message could never be moved from outbox to sent. Everytime send/recieve cycled the message was sent again because it was still in the outbox. Once I deleted a bunch of the messages in the sent items folder then everything was fine again.
#2
I am using BackupExec to backup the "Documents and Settings" folders on a few PCs. The purpose is to backup documents but mostly for backing up Outlook Express emails. My plan is to do a full backup once a month and then differntials each work day. I found that the differential backup was not picking up the Outlook dbx files. What I discovered is that the archive bit on the dbx files does not get changed even when the files are modified unless the mailboxes are compressed. In order to make the differential work I have to turn on the archive bit after a full backup is done. I do this with a batchfile and the command "attrib *.dbx +A".
Hope this helps someone!
#1
A user was having difficulting sending emails. The message would never leave the outbox and would never be put in the sent items folder but the recipient would receive the email; usally multiple times.
After some trouble-shooting I found that this user's sent items folder was over 2GB. The sent items folder was at its limit so the message could never be moved from outbox to sent. Everytime send/recieve cycled the message was sent again because it was still in the outbox. Once I deleted a bunch of the messages in the sent items folder then everything was fine again.
#2
I am using BackupExec to backup the "Documents and Settings" folders on a few PCs. The purpose is to backup documents but mostly for backing up Outlook Express emails. My plan is to do a full backup once a month and then differntials each work day. I found that the differential backup was not picking up the Outlook dbx files. What I discovered is that the archive bit on the dbx files does not get changed even when the files are modified unless the mailboxes are compressed. In order to make the differential work I have to turn on the archive bit after a full backup is done. I do this with a batchfile and the command "attrib *.dbx +A".
Hope this helps someone!