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What do you mean by &quot;ghost&quot; emails?<br />
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Deleted item retention time will only affect the emails that are visible when you do a &quot;Recover Deleted Items&quot; in Outlook. Is that what you are talking about?
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What do you mean by "ghost" emails?

Deleted item retention time will only affect the emails that are visible when you do a "Recover Deleted Items" in Outlook. Is that what you are talking about?

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The mails were deleted years ago, mail retention time was checked and an offline defrag was made, but the mails are still there. When i say they are there, i mean i can recover them with PowerControls and i shouldn't be able to do that.
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The mails were deleted years ago, mail retention time was checked and an offline defrag was made, but the mails are still there. When i say they are there, i mean i can recover them with PowerControls and i shouldn't be able to do that.

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Where are we at with this?<br />
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OneHump
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I still wasn't able to go to the site and try what you suggested.
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I still wasn't able to go to the site and try what you suggested.

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I'm running Exchange 5.5 on a Windows NT Server.<br />
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Mails that are deleted still take disk space, i have checked the mail retention time but it is fine ( the &quot;ghost&quot; mails are much older than the retention time ) and i also ran an offline defrag. The problem still remains.<br />
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Any ideas?
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I'm running Exchange 5.5 on a Windows NT Server.

Mails that are deleted still take disk space, i have checked the mail retention time but it is fine ( the "ghost" mails are much older than the retention time ) and i also ran an offline defrag. The problem still remains.

Any ideas?

Mail Retention in Exchange 5.5

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.