Programmatic way to clean up 'crusty messages'?

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Hi there,

I use a backup program called Retrospect to backup a SBS 2003 server and every night when we run our backup the same 30 messages in our Exchange 2003 server cannot be backed up. They're almost all in the deleted items folders of our users.

Is there a programmatic way to delete these 'crusty' messages which for some reason Retrospect cannot access? or is there some way to make it so that they can be accessed? I believe that because some messages are not being backed up the store is not being marked as 'fully backed up' and as such the transaction logs aren't rotating taking up quite a bit of the ole disk space.

Thanks,
-Drew

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