On Feb 26, 11:26 am, "Michael Santovec"
wrote:
It used to be that if you set the Deleted Items folder to empty on exit
(Tools, Options, Maintenance), OE did an automatic compact on it (or
maybe it just deleted the Deleted Items.dbx file and created a new empty
one). Since the recent update that backs up the DBX files prior to
compacting, that no longer happens and you must manually compact the
Deleted Items folder.

As for the Outbox.dbx, that's for message that you send. It also needs
manual compacting periodically. It shouldn't be increasing in size when
you receive junk mail, unless either you have an anti-spam program
that's set return spam to sender (a bad idea since it only makes matters
worse) or you have some virus sending mail without your knowledge.

Also see Bruce's reply.

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Mike -http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

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Why does OLE create dbx folders with data after receiving junk mail? I
have my mail filters set to delete junk mail on arrival as well as
emptying the trash folder on exit. However, I'm noticing that the
database for the deleted.dbx and the outbox.dbx files are increasing
in size after receiving junk mail. Why? Is there a way to configure
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Compacting does reduce the dbx file sizes. However both the deleted
dbx and the outbox dbx files continue to grow in size every time I
open OLE and receive junk mail. One thing I've noticed is that if I
reload the system (clean install) and restore OLE from backup I
immediately start receiving junk mail again. Then I have to go through
the process of resetting all my filters etc. Since I use both OL and
OLE on the same system I'm wondering if that might be a cause?
(although OL uses pst and it seems to work fine - no junk mail
problems) What I'd like to know is how to check what's in the dbx
files so that when they grow I could open them up and look at them
independant of the OLE Client to see what's being exported if
anything.