Hi Ghetti, As I understood, your system can not deliver a message to an unexistent recipient. A sender will get a NDR if send a message to a never created user or deleted user. Zoran > -----Original Message----- > From: Ghetti, Ron=20 > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:38 AM > To: '[ExchangeList]' > Subject: Deleted User wont go away > > > > This is an odd one. (exchange 2000 SP3) > Several weeks ago a regular user left the company > And so the user and mailbox were deleted after 30 days > Which is the normal policy. > Whats happening now is that if you send and email or > Book a meeting with the group this person was a member of > You will get and ndr saying that the message could not be sent To the > user that was deleted. I've searched high and low through active > directory, outlook And system manager without finding a reference to > this person, And yet this problem continues. > > Any ideas ? > > Thanks. > > -Ron=20 > Barnstable Information Systems.