Exchange issues...

[Turfzilla]

Mailbox was exported to a PST. The problem is, the PST and Mailbox are sync'd. Meaning, when a message is deleted out of the mailbox, it is deleted out of the PST and vice versa! The user I'm dealing with does not want his mailbox and PST to be sync'd. Any thoughts?

 

[SunnyD]

Huh? How can you "sync" a PST file to a mailbox? Either the item is moved to the PST and removed from the mailbox, or it is copied from the mailbox to the PST creating a duplicate copy. There is no "sync" of the PST to the mailbox unless you're using Exchange in POP3 mode with it set to leave a copy on the server, then the default delivery target will be the PST.

I would check to see whether the user using POP3 instead of Exchange.

 

[skace]

Offline folder settings syncs mailboxes to .ost files. But I couldn't see how that related to a pst export or whatever the op is talking about.

Also, if the mailbox isn't on an Exchange Server, the PST will normally house the mailbox data (all the downloaded mail). So if that same pst is mounted, you will see the same items in both places, but it is really the same location just being viewed twice.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: skace
Offline folder settings syncs mailboxes to .ost files. But I couldn't see how that related to a pst export or whatever the op is talking about.

Also, if the mailbox isn't on an Exchange Server, the PST will normally house the mailbox data (all the downloaded mail). So if that same pst is mounted, you will see the same items in both places, but it is really the same location just being viewed twice.

Again, I'm thinking that the user in question is actually using POP3 set to save a copy on the server. That's about the only way for this sort of behavior to happen, as the delivery target will be a PST and changes to the PST are sort of replicated back to the server.