In GroupWise Information, what's the difference between Users and Total Mailboxes?

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  • 22-Sep-2009
  • 26-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell GroupWise 8
Novell GroupWise 7
Novell GroupWise 6.5

Situation

In ConsoleOne, in the GroupWise view. Right click the GroupWise System, Domain or Post Offfice | choose Information.
What is the difference between Users and Total Mailboxes ?  There seem to be discrepencies.
 
For example:
Users: 972
Total Mailboxes: 1008

Resolution

Users is a count of the user records in the wpdomain.db database.
Mailboxes is a count of the databases found in the ofuser directory for a given post office.
 
The differences usually come when users have been deleted from ConsoleOne but their mailboxes were not removed, so their userxxx.dbs remain in the postoffice\ofuser directory.