Delete user account, keep Exchange mailbox

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Frank wrote:
> My company's policy for users who leave is to disable the account
> instead of deleting it. They do this primarily for future emails
> that may be sent to the person that is still valid email. I want to
> know if I can delete their user account but not their mailbox and
> just have the emails forwarded to the proper personnel or give that
> person access to that mailbox. Is this possible on a 2000 network?
> (Server and Exchange) Does someone have a better option? I don't
> usually delete the user account until 30 days after someone leaves.
> At least this is what I did at a previous place.
>
I export the contents of the mailbox to a .pst file which I store , and also
add the ex-employees email address to their managers account for a month or
so to catch any new emails arriving.

If anything is needed from the old mailbox it's a simple matter to restore
the contents onto another PC.


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