A mailbox is not a container, but rather a view of a subset of the objects within a container having some common attribute (i.e. belong to a specific mailbox). Deleting a mailbox is NOT the same thing as deleting a container and its contents. Deleting a mailbox merely deletes a view and nulls out the appropriate attributes. Deleting a mailbox does not cause a message object to be expunged, at least not directly.
Think of it like this. If a TV show is only available on cable channel 89 and you eliminate 100% of the subscribers that had the ability to view channel 89, that does not destroy the source. It might lead to a garbage collection exercise that will cause a purge to occur, but deleting the views is not deleting the data. -----Original Message----- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: A mistake was made... If it is offensive and you don't want users reading the item then ExMerge will work. From Q260037: If the original message was forwarded with a different subject, the ExMerge utility cannot delete the message based on the original message subject line or MTS-ID. If the Item Retention option is turned on, the message may be available for recovery on the Outlook client. If the message is very sensitive and needs to be totally eradicated... It's a mailbox, by mailbox deletion. -----Original Message----- From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:13 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: A mistake was made... Use ExMerge to pull it out of the stores. Nate Couch EDS Messaging > ---------- > From: Mitchell Mike > Reply To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2002 14:02 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: A mistake was made... > > Outlook 98. exchange 5.5 sp4 > > User sent out an eMAIL to a large distribution list by mistake. The > Recall Message action feature did not work very well on this. > This was very sensitive eMAIL that went out and needs to be trapped before > too many people read it. What can I do? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Mike Mitchell > Systems eMAIL Administrator > Alverno Information Services > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (317) 532-7800 ext. 6211 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
