asked on

Corrupt Emails in Exchange Mailbox - cannot delete/move

One of our sites recently suffered from Exchange server corrupted on the streaming files, leaving some emails un-viewable/deletable etc.

One person has three emails in their inbox which cannot be deleted, I have tried the following:

Holding shift whilst pressing delete
Deleting through OWA
Running MFCMAPI on the mailbox (returns a bunch of errors)

Can anyone suggest any other ideas?

I have read about ISINTEG - anybody any idea on how long this would take to run on an 80gb database?

Thanks in advance

Shivkumar Sharma

It runs at an spped of 10-12 gb per hour so in your case it would take approximately 8 hours, the command is

isinteg -s (Exchange server name) -fix -test alltests

Beavish1

ASKER

Shivkumar, do you think this would fix it? If so what would it do, just remove it?

Shivkumar Sharma

Yes, all the logical errors would fix the issue , you have to run isinteg command till you see 0 warnings 0 errors 0 fixes, you may run isinted maximum 3 times till you see 0 warnings 0 errors 0 fixes after the isinted command is completed.

Shivkumar Sharma

Just to add even after running the command for three times you do not see 0 warnings 0 errors 0 fixes, the you may try to fix it by use of some third party utilities/software

Please do update about the status

Beavish1

ASKER

Waiting for a free weekend to try this shivkumar, will let you know.

Thanks

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

Shivkumar Sharma

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial