Tom- This is be design...see technet article Q178021 for addtional information...
The highlights from the article: When you look in the Microsoft Exchange Server Mtadata directory, you may find a large number of .dat files, for example, DB000123.DAT. Many of these files are only 1 byte in size. This is also true, even if the Exchange Server message transfer agent (MTA) does not have any messages in the queues held for delivery. CAUSE ===== This is by product design. In Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, the MTA creates DAT files for all messages. After the messages have been delivered, instead of deleting the DAT files themselves, the data is deleted from the DAT files and the files are reset to 1 byte. The DAT files can be reused for future messages. (had the same question internally this morning!) -----Original Message----- From: Cross, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MTADATA NT4 6a / Exch 5.5 SP4 We had a problem with a remote server that has since been fixed, but I noticed a bunch (6900+) items in the mtadata directory. The problem involved the MTA and IMS, there was a corrupted message in the queue. When I cleaned it out and the MTA/IMS was restarted, the MTA queue reflected the items and it eventually cleared. The items are still in the mtadata directory, which kind of caught me as strange. I looked at a couple local servers and there are a few items in the directory, but no where near the amount I see on the remote. What is the story with this directory? Is this something that needs to be manually cleaned? Thanks in advance, Tom Cross Viasystems Group List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
