Deleting mail from mailboxes in Exchange 2003
We have recently migrated from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 Standard. I need to purge the mail from a mailbox but I do not want to delete the mailbox - just clean it out. This was an easy task in Exchange 5.5, but I cannot see how to do it in Exchange 2003. Any help would be appreciated!
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December 14, 2004 9:54 AM
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December 19, 2004 1:16 PM
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If you want to purge mail from a mailbox without deleting the mailbox permanantly, first disable the user account of the mailbox you want to purge through AD Users and Computers, next, open Exchange Systems Manager -> Adminstrative Groups -> select the group (i.e. domain) -> expand servers -> select the server which has your mailbox in question -> first storage group -> mailbox store -> mailboxes -> right-click to open the options menue and select Purge from the selections. This will delete all mail stored in the mailbox without deleting the mailbox itself.
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HI
To delete you mailbox contents after dumping mail using Exmerge tool you can use recipeints policies and creats a new policy to manage the users mailbox contents, for more info try to copy and paste this in you address bar
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Why don’t you create a recepient policy wirh mailbox management and delete all the messages from all the mailboxes ?