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How to delete the old mail boxes in exchange 2007 and free space in the D drive(Exchange database resides)

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We have Exchange 2007 and outlook 2010

We have around 150 users who have left our organisation from last 2 years and my predecessors have never deleted their mail boxes. I have taken this job now and want the keep the mail server clean.
Please suggest the best way of deleting these mail boxes, if I delete corresponding user in the active directory , will it delete the mail box as well.
Please post me the right procedure to do this.

Secondly the space on the D drive is only 43GB remaining ,where the exchange database is hosted and 349GB has been used.

If I delete all the 150 unwanted mail boxes will I get more space in the D drive.

Thanks

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Mahesh

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lianne143

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Thanks guys for your post, I am planning to migrate to exchange 2013, in April. So better to leave it as it is and migrate only the mail box that are required.
Any suggestions?

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lianne143

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Thanks Guy and Mahesh for your posts.
Much appreciated.