Re: Mailbox is doubling in size daily

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<DonaldPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> I have an extreme situation. I have a user that their mailbox is
> growing in size too quickly. I am not seeing the user being used as a
> relay as I would expect his inbox to fill up. What looks like is
> happening is that any email with a file attachment, the file
> attachment is increasing in size. A simple Visio document that is
> less than 1MB in size is now listed as being 122MB in size in the
> mailbox. I do not know what is causing the file attachments to grow.
> I am currently running Virus Scans to look for trouble but I would
> expect everyone to be affected and it is only the 1 user. I am
> getting ready to delete the mailbox and start over.

I've sure never heard of this before. What are you using for antivirus?
What does the size show up as from the client side?

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