Preventing User From Deleting Emails From Exchange 2003

Friday, December 17, 2004

Preventing User From Deleting Emails From Exchange 2003

I've been asked recently if it's possible to prevent an Exchange user from deleting their email while still having access to it, being able to send, etc.

From what I've found and through some experimentation of Mailbox Rights it doesn't look like it can be done. In order to prevent a user from deleting emails, you basically have to take the rights to the mailbox away.

If anyone knows of some way to do this, please let me know.

Dec 17, 2004 2:17:31 PM | Email/Exchange Administration

3 Comments

Alex

I'm dealing with this same issue myself. I haven't found a way to prevent users from deleting but you can set deleted item retention on individual mailbox stores for up to 68 years. I don't think I'll be working here that long.

Jamie

Posted by: Jamie Sachs | Thursday, February 03, 2005 at 02:50 PM

Alex and Jamie:

Have you two discovered away to prevent users from deleted email?

Posted by: vince Gonzalez | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 11:04 AM

I would like to achieve the same thing and although you can set the deleted item retention, if a user chooses to permanently delete from the 'Recover deleted items' area, there is no way of recovering the deleted emails (or at least that was my understanding)

Darren

Posted by: Darren | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 07:24 AM

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