Exchange 2007 Getting Messages From Corrupt mail.que file

[mattx]

Following this link:

 

Working with the Queue Database on Transport Servers: Exchange 2007 Help

 

I've got as far as re-creating a new mail.que [ after backing up the corrupt one ] and mail is working in and out etc.

I'm now at the stage of trying to recover any mail that was stuck in the corrupt mail.que - I've run a defrag of the file [ was 20 gig, now 373 meg ]

But I'm stuck as what to do next - on checking the link I'm not sure what the "Unreachable" is from the PS command:

 

Retry-Queue -Identity "Unreachable" -Resubmit $True

 

Is this the parth of the corrupt mail.que or do you have to give the mail.que a name - and if so how ?

Would appreciate some advice if anyone has done this before.

[sukh]

You need to perform that on the target Exch server. I.e the server which will take on the old mail.que DB.

 

The unreachable is a queue. It's referring to the target server not the source (where you recovered the mail.que).

[mattx]

Copied over the file to another exchange server, [ backup ] stopped the transport services opened the queue viewer and presto - lots of E-mail.....