2): Bad call.
2b) Really bad call - 30 GB's, while respectable, isn't that large.
NTBackup and a $200.00 external HDD is all you need.
3): last time I saw this was the last time I ever tried to repair a
screwed up IS. Similar situation, except I had a backup.

Your best bet at this point is to archive all mailboxes you can to pst
and give them to your users on cd's and then rebuild from scratch.
Seriously - you can call PSS, and they may have some tricks up there
sleaves, but the symptom you describe is pretty much the risk of
eseutil, and why it is a last resort.

I don't suppose whoever did the eseutil made a copy of the logs and
databases prior to doing it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of John Aldrich
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:12 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Outlook problems after rebuilding server
> 
> 1) Exchange 5.5, Windows 2000
> 2) Don't know. I didn't do it. I think my boss ran eseutil 
> with the "detect and repair" options.
> 2B) No... Unfortunately, we don't back up our Exchange 
> server. It would make things much easier, but we don't really 
> have the hardware to back up 30+ gigs of drivespace.
> 3) First error message is "Can't open this item" and the 
> second one (when you try to delete the "bad" message) says 
> "the item could not be deleted. It was either moved or 
> already deleted, or access was denied."
> 
> 4) Could very well be corrupted logs. 
> 
> Another thing... I logged into the mailbox of one of the 
> users (via OWA) complaining and his "inbox" view states 
> "Unable to render this view"
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:47 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: re: Outlook problems after rebuilding server
> 
> 
> 1. What version of Exchange, running on what OS?
> 
> 2. Which eseutil options did you run? (and do you not have a 
> good backup that you could restore from instead?)
> 
> 3. How do you know it's corrupted messages causing the problems?
> 
> 4. What are the symptoms telling you it's a corrupted 
> message, and what type of message (dirsync, stuck in MTA 
> queue, SMTP stops, etc.)?  Is it actually corrupted messages, 
> or corrupted logs?
> 
> Depending on your version and symptoms, someone should be 
> able to point you in the right direction.
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