Re: EDB Log files grow FAST!! & DB is BIG!!

From: John Oliver, Jr. \(MVP\) (jcoliverjr_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:11:41 -0500

Well, some other suggestions for things to consider. An account in your
domain may have been compromised by Spammers. I would turn on some auditing
to verify. You may also consider that your domain may be getting bombarded
by spammers which can fill up your Badmail folder. 

-- 
John Oliver, Jr.
MCSE, MCT, CCNA, Exchange MVP
Microsoft Certified Partner
"Mario" <mmanzano@olemexicanfoods.net> wrote in message
news:faa101c43e6b$9d5b0fb0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello John!
>
> Thank you for your response. Your help is really
> appreciated.
>
> Yes we do have Symantec Corporate Edition with all and
> it's Exchange Antivirus/filtering companion...Yes it is
> setup to exclude the M: drive and some other folders.
> Described in the Microsoft article as well as the
> equivalent symantec article (don't have the number)
>
> Windows update was shows no outstanding critical updates.
> And Exchange has the SP3.
>
> Yes errors are logged in the event viewer only when
> exchange has ran out of space to work, caused by the
> unexpected growth of files which eat the disk space. But
> until that happens no errors show up whatsoever.
>
> However, you made me go through the folders and notice
> that the "c:\program files\exchsrvr\mailroot\vsi 1
> \badmail" has files and even though we deleted them they
> keep showing.
>
> This is sign, PLEASE correct me if I am wrong, that
> somebody in the internal network is relaying on the server
> to send mails and/or there is a virus around. Then again,
> virus scans and virus sweeps come clean as a whistle.
>
> Any other thoughts? ?
>
> Again thank you! thank you! thank you!
>
> Mario Manzano
> Systems Manager - CHPT
> Ole Mexican Foods, Inc.
>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Are you running any type of flat file virus scanner on
> the server itself?
> >Is it set not to scan your database directories or M:?
> >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
> US;298924
> >
> >Have you also checked your Event Viewer for any errors?
> Latest SP on
> >Exchange?  Windows Update been run lately?
> >
> >-- 
> >John Oliver, Jr.
> >MCSE, MCT, CCNA, Exchange MVP
> >Microsoft Certified Partner
> >
> >"Mario" <mmanzano@olemexicanfoods.net> wrote in message
> >news:f3ca01c43dbd$d0d9bb60$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Hello everyone!
> >>
> >> Thank you in advanced for taking the time and for any
> >> ideas.
> >>
> >> We haev an Exchange2000 running on an SBS (Dell server).
> >> All of a sudden the EDB log files in the MDBDATA folder
> >> started to grow very fast. This eats the HDD space!
> >>
> >> We have checked in the microsoft support page for any
> >> documents relaetd to this and found nothing helpful. The
> >> reasons we found were the calendar connector, and some
> >> replication between the public and private folders.
> >> Nothing of this nature is even running.
> >>
> >> Also, the Exchange cyclic loggin could have been the
> >> cause, accoring to Microsoft. But is not even turned on
> in
> >> Exchange2000.
> >>
> >> Nonetheless, we did check if somebody was using the
> server
> >> to relay e-mail and creating garbage "BAD MAIL", which
> >> consequently creates logs. The setting are that nobody
> can
> >> relay e-mail on the server but the internal users.
> >>
> >> Don't think we didn't look for viruses too. We restarted
> >> the server in SAFE MODE and scanned all the corners of
> it.
> >> Nothing came up!!
> >>
> >> The logs keep growing, and growing. And the databases
> keep
> >> getting bigger the HDD is almost at it's near capacity
> and
> >> now the Daily Backup has been affected by it.
> >>
> >> Any idea of what can be causing it!!
> >>
> >> We are near our neighbor's wall caused by the head
> >> banging!!
> >>
> >> Again Thank you!
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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