You won't see it until 1. your deleted item retention period has passed, and 2. online defrag has completed, look for event 1221 in the app log on your mailbox server. That will give you the free space in the db.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Chris Pohlschneider < chris.pohlschnei...@hollowayusa.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I have Exchange 2003 Enterprise SP2 on Windows Server 2003 SP2. A few of > our users have large mailboxes and I am enforcing limits on them. One user > copied about 4GB of folders into a pst file and her mailbox size showed the > size difference after that happened (reduced size). The user did this two > days ago and I thought that I would see some whitespace regained anytime a > mailbox size is reduced. My question is does this only increase the size of > whitespace when a user deletes items? > > > > Chris Pohlschneider > > Network Administrator > > chris.pohlschnei...@hollowayusa.com > > 937-494-2559 > > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~