Gurus I come from lotus so go easy on me I need to minimize the size of the database, my question is , if I exmerge by date range and I believe 2007 allows me to do that , the user will only see the email that did not exported and that are still on the first storage if this is true, can I reclaim the white spaces. If I go the other way and have the client archive to local folder, do this archive reduce my emails on the exchange server also as well, or is this archive a copy that is save locally. Thanks a bunch gurus for your patience in this regard

Gurus I come from lotus so go easy on me I need to minimize the size of the database, my question is , if I exmerge by date range and I believe 2007 allows me to do that , the user will only see the email that did not exported and that are still on the first storage if this is true, can I reclaim the white spaces. If I go the other way and have the client archive to local folder, do this archive reduce my emails on the exchange server also as well, or is this archive a copy that is save locally. Thanks a bunch gurus for your patience in this regard If you archive to any location outside of Exchange, no matter where that is, then yes, white space will be made available in the mailbox store. It doesnt shrink the size of the store on disk however of course.