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The EXMERGE utility can assist you with this. You'll find a good tutorial to get you started with EXMERGE here: <a href="http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF013.html" rel="ugc">http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF013.html</a><br />
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Hope this helps.<br />
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Laura E. Hunter - Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - Networking
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The EXMERGE utility can assist you with this. You'll find a good tutorial to get you started with EXMERGE here: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF013.html [http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF013.html]

Hope this helps.

Laura E. Hunter - Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - Networking

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use mailbox manager policy. search MS KB and you would find many articles about how to implement it.
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use mailbox manager policy. search MS KB and you would find many articles about how to implement it.

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Thank you sage. i ahve read through the articles and i want to apply it &nbsp;to a couple of accounts as a test. The directions aren't really clear. When I name the policy, I then hit the modify button to apply filter rules, i hit the drop down to find users, computers and group and then select the name of the person i want the policy to apply to correct?
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Thank you sage. i ahve read through the articles and i want to apply it  to a couple of accounts as a test. The directions aren't really clear. When I name the policy, I then hit the modify button to apply filter rules, i hit the drop down to find users, computers and group and then select the name of the person i want the policy to apply to correct?

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Yes you can set a recipient policy to perge messages after a set number of days.
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Yes you can set a recipient policy to perge messages after a set number of days.

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I would like to know if there is a way to automatically purge old emails from a specific users mailbox in exchange 2003. I have users that do not clean out their mailboxes and they are not ablr to receive emails. 
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I would like to know if there is a way to automatically purge old emails from a specific users mailbox in exchange 2003. I have users that do not clean out their mailboxes and they are not ablr to receive emails. 

I would like to know if there is a way to purge old emails from a specific users mailbox in exchange 2003

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

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.