Invisible mail

There is nothing in my inbox, outbox, drafts, deleted, or sent items.

However when i look in under exchange system manager it says that i
have 1.5gb of info and 81,000 files.

anybody know what this is about.

all help appreciated

At work, at home, or where? Have you asked the IT professionals running the
Exchange server what it might be?

You give no real info that might enable anyone to assist you. Your reply
should include basic info as to your operating system, version of Outlook or
Outlook Express in use, whether or not you receive any error messages when
connecting to the mail server, whether it is an IMAP or POP3 server, etc.

All crystal balls are out at the shop being polished to remove the internal
fog that has accumulated from reading and trying to guess at the unstated
content between the lines in too many thousands of posts similar to this.
Sorry.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"b" <brianj7675@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> There is nothing in my inbox, outbox, drafts, deleted, or sent items.
>
> However when i look in under exchange system manager it says that i
> have 1.5gb of info and 81,000 files.
>
> anybody know what this is about.
>
> all help appreciated
>

"b" <brianj7675@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1133912036.100683.167730@g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com
> There is nothing in my inbox, outbox, drafts, deleted, or sent items.
>
> However when i look in under exchange system manager it says that i
> have 1.5gb of info and 81,000 files.
>
> anybody know what this is about.
>
> all help appreciated

Have you compacted folders?

I don't know what exchange system manager has to do with OE. To see the OE
data files go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder and write down
their location.

Then go to that location with Windows Explorer (set to show hidden files and
folders) and look at the DBX files.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
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At work.

There are no IT professionals. It is a very young company. Kind of
feeling it out.

I'm using outlook express,(don't know version because i'm not at work
right now.)

there is no error message
It is a pop3 server.

Exchange system manager shows you the mailbox store. Therefore showing
you how bigt each of your users mailboxes are.

I looked up the .dbx file on the account but got distracted because it
was going to document and settings\application ....\basically a user
account which didn't seem right to me at the time. but i will check
that approach out in the morning.

Thanks to both Frank and Jim.
I will post if i find the awnser




Here is another wrench

"b" <brianj7675@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1133927772.956133.295040@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com
> At work.
>
> There are no IT professionals. It is a very young company. Kind of
> feeling it out.
>
> I'm using outlook express,(don't know version because i'm not at work
> right now.)
>
> there is no error message
> It is a pop3 server.
>
> Exchange system manager shows you the mailbox store. Therefore showing
> you how bigt each of your users mailboxes are.
>
> I looked up the .dbx file on the account but got distracted because it
> was going to document and settings\application ....\basically a user
> account which didn't seem right to me at the time. but i will check
> that approach out in the morning.
>
> Thanks to both Frank and Jim.
> I will post if i find the awnser

The DBX files are hidden in Win2K and WinXP, so Windows Explorer and Search
must be set to show (search) Hidden files and folders.
There is a separate DBX store for each Windows User and each OE Identity.
These are usually kept in
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Applicationd
Data\Identities\{GUID} where {GUID} is a long alphanumeric number for the
identity.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/sec...t/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/