Data file mailbox John Doe was not closed properly

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Rick Csucsai

Is there a setting within Outlook 2003 that will allow me to turn off
Outlook "Fixing" these PST files. Our COO is telling me that he gets this
error message fairly often and wants it to go away. Granted, the PST files
are pretty big (about 1.5 gb), I would prefer to tell Outlook when to check
their integrity.

As to why they are so big, all of our VP's would be lost without the ability
to view email as far back as the beginning of time of they had it their way.
It is how they maintain their accountability. I am having a heck of a time
explaining to them why they should pursue other avenues but they all feel
like email servers should be able to handle email boxes of any size. If any
of you have ideas or pointers to documents to help explain why email
management is a good thing, please be sure to pass that along.
 
Rick Csucsai said:
Is there a setting within Outlook 2003 that will allow me to turn off
Outlook "Fixing" these PST files. Our COO is telling me that he gets this
error message fairly often and wants it to go away. Granted, the PST files
are pretty big (about 1.5 gb), I would prefer to tell Outlook when to check
their integrity.

As to why they are so big, all of our VP's would be lost without the ability
to view email as far back as the beginning of time of they had it their way.
It is how they maintain their accountability. I am having a heck of a time
explaining to them why they should pursue other avenues but they all feel
like email servers should be able to handle email boxes of any size. If any
of you have ideas or pointers to documents to help explain why email
management is a good thing, please be sure to pass that along.
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Here is a good breakdown on why you should manage the size of your pst
files. Also there is a 2 gig limit to .pst files and nasty things start
happening when you surpass this.

http://www.caelo.com/kb/T1116.php
 
Rick Csucsai said:
Is there a setting within Outlook 2003 that will allow me to turn off
Outlook "Fixing" these PST files. Our COO is telling me that he gets
this error message fairly often and wants it to go away. Granted, the
PST files are pretty big (about 1.5 gb), I would prefer to tell
Outlook when to check their integrity.
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If he's getting that message when Outlook starts, it's because he's logging
out without properly closing Outlook, either willfully or inadvertently.
SOme reasons why Outlook may nt close properly can be found here:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm
 
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