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April 24, 2002 Troubleshooter: Understanding the Relationship Between the .edb and .stm Files A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Paul Robichaux The Exchange Server Troubleshooter InstantDoc #24781 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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How are .edb and .stm files related, and when is content moved from one to the other?

—Jason Voyles

A message database's .stm file stores contiguous sequences of streamed content. MIME-format messages from the Internet have a unique property: They always arrive as a stream of bytes. In Exchange Server 5.5, the Internet Mail Service (IMS) accepts . . .

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Since SMTP in the native protocol between E2K servers, are messages sent between servers needlessly converted too many time when MAPI clients being involved? In other words, if a MAPI user on one server sends a message to a MAPI user on another server does it goes from EDB to STM over to the other servers STM then promoted to EDB for the recipient client to open?

Steve Clark August 14, 2002

So when data is removed from the .EDB file it is NOT removed from the .STM file? How can I remove data that was related to the .EDB file from the .STM file, since once the .edb is removed it is no longer usefull?

I know this is 2.67 years late, but still..

Anonymous User March 19, 2005 (Article Rating:

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