exchange :easy way to recover 8 months of e-mail?

[pow3rhouse]

a user lost the last 8 months of e-mail in a PST file on her local computer. So right now im looking at setting up another server and going though the transaction logs to recover the mail. Is there a easier less time consuming way or app to do this? anything to help this time/labor intensive task would be helpful.

Thanks

[Jason]

the PSTwas stored on the local computer so isn't part of the Exchange data store. PST's should be stored on file servers not local PC's.

No way of bringing this back other than something like Ontrack easy recovery pro or equivilant.

Lesson never store anything on local PC's.

[pow3rhouse]

ive used recovery software without any luck. I KNOW pst's shouldnt be kept on the local computer and not part of the data store. The e-mail can be recovered by replaying the transaction logs for the last 8 months but that is a very time/labor intensive.

[dan87]

is this on exchange 2003? Cause if so, and you are using Outlook 2003, you can recover deleted messages. As to how many months are stored on Ex2k3, it depends on how you set it up, but by default it should be 6 months.

If this is from a POP3 account, then you can't recover them. Imap may leave the messages on the server.

[pow3rhouse]

yes this is using exchange 2003/outlook 2003 mapi. Because the e-mails were not in the data store you cant recover deleted items.