XADM: Counting Age in Clean Mailbox

Last reviewed: February 27, 1998
Article ID: Q180569

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Exchange Server, versions 4.0 and 5.0

SUMMARY

In the Microsoft Exchange Administrator program when you run the Clean Mailbox command from the Tools menu, there is a data entry field for deleting all messages older than a certain number of days. When counting the number of days for this field, Exchange goes by the time stamp for the mail receipt date, not the last modified date.

For example, if a particular mail message was received a month ago and is just modified today by the recipient, the mail message will still be deleted if the Clean Mailbox command is performed by the administrator with "All messages older than <number of days>:" set to "10."

Keywords          : XADM
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbinfo

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Last reviewed: February 27, 1998
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