Article ID: 252757
Article Last Modified on 10/26/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q252757
SYMPTOMS
Microsoft Visual Basic code that uses Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) and that logs on to a mailbox, gets a folder object, and then sets the object to nothing in a loop causes a memory leak.
CAUSE
The reference count for an internal object never reaches zero and it is reallocated, which causes the memory leak.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server 5.5. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
191014 XGEN: How to Obtain the latest Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Exchange Server 5.5. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 4.
MORE INFORMATION
The following code may cause the memory leak:
Dim CdoExpStore As InfoStore Dim i As Integer Dim Cdoexpfolder As MAPI.Folder For i = 1 To 10000 Set Cdoexpfolder = CdoExpStore.RootFolder Set Cdoexpfolder = Nothing Next i
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