Refreshing quotas on individual mailboxes, domains or the server
Document ID: 10137
Synopsis
Sometimes mailboxes return the wrong value for the KB content of a mailbox, even if you have cleared the mailbox, it still reports an incorrect ammount in the mailbox properties.
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Refreshing quotas on individual mailboxes, domains or the server
Sometimes mailboxes return the wrong value for the KB content of a mailbox, even if you have cleared the mailbox, it still reports an incorrect ammount in the mailbox properties.
To Refresh a mailbox quota, use MSQUOTA.EXE, found in the MailSite directory or you can download it from the user room.
usage is as follows:
msquota [-machine name] [-user user [-pass [pass]] default is this machine
[-domain domain] * => alldomains, default domain if absent
[-mailbox mailbox] recalculate for single mailbox in domain
supplied in -domain argument
[-silent] work silently
[-version] display version no only
[-help] show this help text
To refresh the quotas, follow the steps below:
- Open a command window
- Change to the MailSite directory
- For a mailbox in the dafault domain, type:
MSQUOTA username
- For a mailbox in a virtual domain type:
MSQUOTA -domain
-mailbox - For a specific domain only type:
MSQUOTA -domain
- For the entire server, type:
MSQUOTA -domain *
- For a specific domain only type: