Hi We are running Exchange 2003 SP2/2007 SP1 servers. Our schematic is this: Internet <> SMTP Gateway <> Exchange Bridgeheads/ Hub Transports <> Exchange Mailbox servers Recently, due to an error, someone's mailbox was accidentally deleted. When people sent email to her from within Exchange, it was rejected with the usual 'no such address' error. 1. The error has now been rectified, however does anyone know if its possible to recover the mails that were rejected? Are they not held in a queue somewhere within Exchange (BadMail?)? 2. Does this recovery method change between Exchange 2003 and 2007? 3. Which server is it that actually initially rejects the message (assuming the mail is from an internal source)? 4. Which server is holding the rejected message?

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:02:10 +0000, Sheen1990 wrote: > > >Hi > >We are running Exchange 2003 SP2/2007 SP1 servers. > >Our schematic is this: > >Internet <> SMTP Gateway <> Exchange Bridgeheads/ Hub Transports <> Exchange Mailbox servers > >Recently, due to an error, someone's mailbox was accidentally deleted. When people sent email to her from within Exchange, it was rejected with the usual 'no such address' error. > >1. The error has now been rectified, however does anyone know if its possible to recover the mails that were rejected? Are they not held in a queue somewhere within Exchange (BadMail?)? The command RCPT TO was rejected. There was no message sent to that address. There's nothing to revocer becasue nothing was ever accepted for delivery. >2. Does this recovery method change between Exchange 2003 and 2007? Nope. >3. Which server is it that actually initially rejects the message (assuming the mail is from an internal source)? Internal? As in someone sent the message from an Outlook client? Or was it from a SMTP client? Either way, anything that's recoverable would be on the sender's side (in a mailbox, maybe). >4. Which server is holding the rejected message? None. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi, 1, You can ask the sender to resend the email, it's not supported to recover the mail on the server side since the NDR already was generated. 2, No 3, The Hub server 4, None. Thanks Allen