Too many emails in a mail box!!

[sabrang]

Hi guys,
My boss has been using OWA for over a year now (newsgroups and all) and has over 20000 pieces of mail in his mail box..

Is there a way that I can copy his mail box somewhere just for archive purposes or if he needs to peek into some older mail etc.. He wants to start afresh, clean his box and wants to unenroll from those newsgroups that are clogging his mailbox.

Can you gurus please recommend a quick solution for this situation. (Trying to download and delete the mail using outlook express does not work because the system hangs, too much mail i guess..)

Thanks a lot in advance

 

[fs483]

Why not open MS Outlook and do an archive of all messages older than 1 month or 1 day. Run it once and then disable auto-archive function. I don't think OE is actually hanging but just really taking a lot of time retrieving the messages.

 

[Davetoo]

You could also use exmerge to export his mailbox to a pst.

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[sabrang]

Thanks awkong, I'll try it out today..

 

[sabrang]

lander 215..
doesn't the pst have an upper limit on file size.. we are using exchange 200o and outlook express 6..

 

[Zelandakh]

outlook express???

Just create a filing folder and move everything into it?

 

[Davetoo]

Outlook 2000 has a 2GB limit on PST's, yes.

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