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Restoring an Ex-Employee's E-mails

Articles and Tips: qna

01 Aug 2003


Q.

I need to check the e-mails of an ex-employee whose ID has been recently deleted. Do I need to restore the entire post office to a test server to do this?

Peter Perfect in Pirna

A.

Dear Peter: Depending on the time period since the deletion (shorter the better), try the following steps:

  1. Copy the USERxxx.DB to a safe directory.

  2. Import a user with the same FID (File ID) as the ex-employee using the GWImport utility or a similar utility.

  3. Copy back the USERxxx.DB to the OFUser directory.

  4. Log into GroupWise and check the e-mails.

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes


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