2003 Local/Server Mailbox Size Difference   

I posted this once before but was kind of light on details:

I have one FE and one BE server, each running Exchange 2003SP2.  All clients 
are running Outlook 2003 in cached mode with the exception of a few network 
administrators (self included) running Outlook 2007 (also cached mode).  All 
of our users have between a 500mb and a 1gb mail limit (depending on their 
role in the company)

2 months ago, I received a warning that I was over my size limit.  When I 
checked, my local copy was below the size limit but on the server it 
appeared 200 mb larger.  To fix, the problem, I moved all my mail to an 
archive and, once the mail server and Outlook agreed that the size was the 
same, I moved my mail back.  This fixed the problem.

I am now seeing this problem with another user in my organization.  The 
problem isn't exclusive to the inbox- it seems like almost every folder is a 
few mb bigger on the server than locally.Someone recommended I check the 
mailbox contents using PFDAVADMIN but when I try to check the main inbox 
PFDAVADMIN times out.

Any other suggestions or tools?  Also, how does this happen in the first 
place?

Jeffrey

date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:23:45 -0400   author:   Jeffrey Friedman

Re: 2003 Local/Server Mailbox Size Difference   

Hi Jeffrey,

Try this and see if any hidden mails stuck up at root of mailbox.

http://exchangeshare.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/mailbox-is-empty-but-esm-still-shows-size-count%E2%80%A6/

Regards,
Amit Tank 
http://exchangeshare.wordpress.com

> I posted this once before but was kind of light on details:
> 
> I have one FE and one BE server, each running Exchange 2003SP2.  All
> clients are running Outlook 2003 in cached mode with the exception of
> a few network administrators (self included) running Outlook 2007
> (also cached mode).  All of our users have between a 500mb and a 1gb
> mail limit (depending on their role in the company)
> 
> 2 months ago, I received a warning that I was over my size limit.
> When I checked, my local copy was below the size limit but on the
> server it appeared 200 mb larger.  To fix, the problem, I moved all my
> mail to an archive and, once the mail server and Outlook agreed that
> the size was the same, I moved my mail back.  This fixed the problem.
> 
> I am now seeing this problem with another user in my organization.
> The problem isn't exclusive to the inbox- it seems like almost every
> folder is a few mb bigger on the server than locally.Someone
> recommended I check the mailbox contents using PFDAVADMIN but when I
> try to check the main inbox PFDAVADMIN times out.
> 
> Any other suggestions or tools?  Also, how does this happen in the
> first place?
> 
> Jeffrey
>

date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:40:37 +0000 (UTC)   author:   Amit Amit Tank@MSNews