Delete Emails older than X days in Exchange 2003

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How can I delete emails for a specific email account older than X days in Exchange 2003 from the server? I would like to do this from the server, not from the outlook client.

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You could use the tool ExMerge. Here is a decription how to delete messages on the server using that utility:

How do I use EXMERGE to delete specific messages from Exchange 2000/2003 mailboxes?

You can download Exmerge in Microsoft's Download area.

Here is a screenshot of the selection criteria (by date):

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Delete files older that 2 days with some exceptions

Quick and dirty VBScript here, it assumes UK date format for enumerating if the file is from the 1st of the month. If you use a different date format then change the trim command to grab the appropriate number positions. For example, a US date would be Mid(objFile.DateLastModified, 4, 2) = 01 rather than Left(objFile.DateLastModified, 2) = 01

Anyway, sorry for the dirty code... but it should get you started.

strFolder = "C:\DeleteTest"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strFolder)
Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
strDaysOld = 2
'Get files from target folder
For Each File in colFiles
set objFile = objFSO.GetFile(strFolder & "\" & File.Name)
'Enumerate last modified date/time and delete if older than 2 days but where the date doesn't start with '01'
If objFile.DateLastModified < (Date() - strDaysOld) AND NOT Left(objFile.DateLastModified, 2) = 01 Then
objFSO.DeleteFile objFile, true
End If
Next

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