Hello- My very first post. Well this is the Chairman of the Board mailbox that I'm dealing with. I didn't administer this box, I have inherited the problem. He has over 450,000 junk emails and rising. How can I delete the junk emails out of the mailbox without setting up an outlook client? Its been updating for a couple of days now. The numbers keep going up. I don't want to lock up the server. Thanks.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:04:23 +0000, Jesus N wrote: >Well this is the Chairman of the Board mailbox that I'm dealing with. I didn't administer this box, I have inherited the problem. He has over 450,000 junk emails and rising. Seriously? I'd consider deleting the mailbox (NOT the user!) and creating a new one. >How can I delete the junk emails out of the mailbox without setting up an outlook client? You could use OWA, but you wouldn't finish deleting the messages before you were eligible for retirement. >Its been updating for a couple of days now. The numbers keep going up. Don't you have a spam filter? >I don't want to lock up the server. You won't. Outlook won't be happy, but Exchange will be okay. You could create a managed default folder policy and have Exchange remove everthing older than "X" days. Or you could use Export-Mailbox -- if the "good" mail in a folder different to the spam -- and just save the good stuff. Then delete the mailbox and create a new one. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP