The Backup Exec (V10)on our Exchange 2003 server has been reporting each morning that the overnight backup has failed due to some 54 e-mail items being skipped i.e. :- Backed up 351271 mail messages in 3988 folders in 100 mailbox(es) 8 corrupt files were backed up 54 items were skipped. Processed 25,385,029,559 bytes in 5 hours, 41 minutes, and 21 seconds. Throughput rate: 70.9 MB/min All 54 skipped items are one and the same mail item, which is/are apparently stored in the SMTP mailbox viz :- Access denied to file SMTP (CLMNT6-{3099996F-D4BC-4AC3-A025-714CCA35EC6C}) [{3099996f-d4bc-4ac3-a025-714cca35ec6c}]?TempTable#1?#0?Fwd: African Finance. The item \CLMNT6Microsoft Exchange MailboxesSMTP (CLMNT6-{3099996F-D4BC-4AC3-A025-714CCA35EC6C}) [{3099996f-d4bc-4ac3-a025-714cca35ec6c}]?TempTable#1?#0????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Fwd: African Finance in use - skipped. V-79-57344-33928 - Access is denied. On checking however, there is no e-mail messages stored in the SMTP mailbox. The SMTP mailbox is apparently used by the mail transport of Exchange Server 2003 as a temporary holding place for various messages as they pass through the system. I have completed a consistency check and defrag of the Exchange Store in a futile attempt to seek-out-and-destroy this/these e-mail message/s. Anyone got any ideas please?