Yes you can. As ICB[1] mentioned, search technet for DumpsterAlwaysOn and make sure you have Deleted Item Retention enabled.
Scared the crap out of one of my desktop engineers who thought he could hide something from me in email. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE MCT Senior Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA http://www.peregrine.com [1] A common nickname for Mr. Morrison. I leave it to the reader to deduce its meaning. > -----Original Message----- > From: Pfefferkorn, Pete (PFEFFEPE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 6:15 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Missing Mail > > > If you have a deletion retention period defined and someone > POP's their mail > off the server, can you recover it? I always thought that > when you pop it > removes it totally from the system and it could not be recovered. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:35 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Missing Mail > > > Either the mail was delivered (or moved_ to a .pst file, or > it was removed > from the server by a POP3 client. If you have Deleted Items > retention turned > on, you can get it all back by using the DumpsterAlwaysOn [1] > registry hack > to recover the items. If you don't have DIR turned on, you'll have to > determine where the mail is and move it back. > > Mike Morrison > NT/SMS/Exchange Administrator > Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. > > [1] Search TechNet to find out how to enable it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 7:44 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Missing Mail > > > Hi all, > We are running Exchange 5.5 SP4 on NT Server 4.0 SP6. We have a > problem with one of our users. He had until a few days ago around 7000 > e-mails in his inbox and folders. They then mysteriously > disapeared. We > checked that he didn't have any filters on. He didn't. We accesed his > mailbox from to other machines and still no go. The client on his is > outlook 97 and the two other test machines were Outlook 97 & > Outlook 2000. > We checked with the admin tools how much mail he had and they > showed all > the mail was still there. We ran eseutil and isinteg with all > tests and > fix. Although it found some errors it still hasn't fixed the > problem. I've > searched TechNet with no solutions to be found. Any ideas appreciated. > Thanks Guys > > Kind Regards > Matthew Dulak > > Vision Systems Ltd > Melbourne Australia > Ph +61-3-9211-7000 > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
