Re: Cleaning a Mailbox
Absolutely the easiest (and fastest)...came across a mailbox last week with over 8 million messages in the deleted items container. Not sure what I was thinking when I clicked on Deleted Items...like it would ever open... I ended up killing Outlook and running disable-mailbox...ridiculous. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:29 AM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had thought about that method. Didn't know if there was an easier way, but I suppose it doesn't get much easier than two or three commands… *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, October 13, 2008 10:04 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Cleaning a Mailbox Disable-mailbox mailbox-id Clean-mailboxdatabase mailbox-database-id Enable-mailbox mailbox-id The clean-mailboxdatabase isn't theoretically required, but I like to throw it in there. Note that this actually removes the mailbox from a user and creates a new one for the user. If that isn't actually what you want, tell us more. :-0 Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, October 13, 2008 9:29 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Cleaning a Mailbox With Exchange 2007, what's the easiest way to delete all of the messages from a specific mailbox? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Cleaning a Mailbox
With Exchange 2007, what's the easiest way to delete all of the messages from a specific mailbox? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttp://www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Cleaning a Mailbox
I had thought about that method. Didn't know if there was an easier way, but I suppose it doesn't get much easier than two or three commands... From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cleaning a Mailbox Disable-mailbox mailbox-id Clean-mailboxdatabase mailbox-database-id Enable-mailbox mailbox-id The clean-mailboxdatabase isn't theoretically required, but I like to throw it in there. Note that this actually removes the mailbox from a user and creates a new one for the user. If that isn't actually what you want, tell us more. :-0 Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 9:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Cleaning a Mailbox With Exchange 2007, what's the easiest way to delete all of the messages from a specific mailbox? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttp://www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Cleaning a Mailbox
Disable-mailbox mailbox-id Clean-mailboxdatabase mailbox-database-id Enable-mailbox mailbox-id The clean-mailboxdatabase isn't theoretically required, but I like to throw it in there. Note that this actually removes the mailbox from a user and creates a new one for the user. If that isn't actually what you want, tell us more. :-0 Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 9:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Cleaning a Mailbox With Exchange 2007, what's the easiest way to delete all of the messages from a specific mailbox? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
