Mleone1234
Fri May 09 07:23:58 CDT 2008
On May 8, 11:39 pm, William Smith <meckli...@REM0VETH1S.comcast.net>
wrote:
> Mleone1234 wrote:
> > We have had this happen a lot with our users. Our Entourage clients
> > will get a corrupted database,the little box pops up to rebuild. We
> > rebuild and then from the moment we open Entourage it starts sending
> > old messages that user has all ready sent (we know because the other
> > said has all ready replied!) again!!
>
> > We use Exchange 2003 SP2 with a FE/BE, Mac OS X 10.4.11 with Office
> > 2004 (11.4.1). The users mailbox is around 1.5GB on the exchange side,
> > there DB is 4GB!
>
> > Why is Entourage so broken?
>
> I never recommend rebuilding a database with an Exchange or IMAP
> account. I suggest always starting a new identity and letting messages
> synchronize again.
>
> When database corruption is present, you don't know what kind of
> corruption has occurred. You risk Entourage losing messages, contacts
> and events (although this is rare) and then deleting them from your server.
>
> I have no idea why messages would be resent after a rebuild because we
> don't know what's getting "fixed" in the Database. Sounds like some sort
> of "I've been sent" flag is getting reset.
>
> --
>
> bill
>
> William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
> Entourage Help Page <
http://entourage.mvps.org/>
> Entourage Help Blog <
http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
Well sounds like I will be setting up new ID's on a daily basis. We
have at least 2 peoples db per day go bell up. Yesterday after I
posted this a user with 8.5GB db dropped dead twice. I then created a
new ID and 2 hours later (once it finished pulling the mail) dropped
dead again. That time the DB was 13GB! There has to be a reason the db
just die once they hit the magic 2GB size.
BTW the users mailbox is only 1GB on exchange, so were does entourage
find 12GB?
Mike