Re: removing part of a mailbox based upon date

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From: Susan (sconkey_at_mgmmirage.nospam.com)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:20:28 -0800

exmerge will work, but you'll have to specify date ranges with mailboxes
that large...can't exmerge to a pst file over 2 gigabytes...
it will stall out...

"brian" <nospam@none.org> wrote in message news:m2E_d.8$ZT4.3@fe08.lga...
> I have a few users with extremely large mail boxes, nearly 5gb.
> Basically, they want to have access to every piece of mail they've ever
> gotten, going back 4 years or so. The problem is the database is growing
> massive and slow.
>
> What I'd like to do is keep only the last 6 months or so on the server,
> and have them access anything older than that via a pst file. How can I
> remove (I know I can extract it using exmerge) all the mail prior to a
> certain date from an individual mailbox? Or is there a better way to go
> about it? Any ideas would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian

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