Undeletable mailbox

Hi all,

I have an SBS 2000 box where I imported the mailboxes from SBS4.5 (ran
exmerge).

All 35 mailboxes imported ok.

The clients were all able to access their mailboxes OK except one, which was
corrupt.
I was unable to remove the mailbox or delete the contents in any way
soooo.....
I created a new mailbox and associated it with the user account and then
imported the messages again from the .pst files....no problem. However, I
now cannot delete the old mailbox, I have tried allsorts and run the mailbox
cleanup, all to no avail. I now get an error message on the backup because
it is unable to backup the mailbox and yet I am unable to remove
it........any idea's???


TIA

Terry

Dave
Thu Jan 15 09:30:15 CST 2004

This mailbox is probably being held in deleted mailbox recovery - Exchange
is most likely set to retain deleted mailboxes for a set period of time,
after which that mailbox will go away by itself. You can check this in the
properties of the mailbox store.

If it's a brick level backup that's generating the error, you can just
exclude that mailbox or ignore the error until the system deletes it.


"Terry" <help@rit.co.uk> wrote in message
news:u553xUv2DHA.2580@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I have an SBS 2000 box where I imported the mailboxes from SBS4.5 (ran
> exmerge).
>
> All 35 mailboxes imported ok.
>
> The clients were all able to access their mailboxes OK except one, which
was
> corrupt.
> I was unable to remove the mailbox or delete the contents in any way
> soooo.....
> I created a new mailbox and associated it with the user account and then
> imported the messages again from the .pst files....no problem. However, I
> now cannot delete the old mailbox, I have tried allsorts and run the
mailbox
> cleanup, all to no avail. I now get an error message on the backup because
> it is unable to backup the mailbox and yet I am unable to remove
> it........any idea's???
>
>
> TIA
>
> Terry
>
>