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Deleting messages from Exchange Server

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by eldon 1 view

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From the server console, is it possible to delete a message that is delivered to several mailboxes in Exchange Server 2000 without signing in as each user?

Example: User "Joe" sends message is sent to entire company in the middle of the night. You are called in to delete the message from each recipient's mailbox before they have a chance to read it. Is there a tool/process that will allow you to sign into the server, find the message in question (identified by using message tracking) and delete it from each user's mailbox?

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by curacao_dejavu

no, its not possible.
the exchange is a database, (1 file for all emails for all users) there is no way to do that without logging in as the user that sent the message.

Leopold

by ariston

I know that Outlook has an Unsend option that only works with an Exchange server. You might want to try that avenue. I've never tried it before but it might do the trick.

Good luck!

Ariston Collander
ariston@coxcomputer.com

by lcampbell

Not really the short way around it, However, it should be possible to access all of the users it was sent to using the MBX folder on the M: drive and deleting each sent copy indiviually.
I see no reason why this wouldn't work. But, could take alot of time if it was sent to 100's of users.
Sorry, maybe not much help

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