SCOM 2007 extest_ user mailbox maintenance/management.

I use SCOM 2007 to monitor our Exchange 2010 environment. I use the test-* commands in powershells on my desktop to catch anything that may occur between SCOM alert thresholds. Several of these use the extest_ account.
Today, I looked at the extest_ user mailbox and found that the tests are accumulating in the mailbox. What do I need to configure so the tests are purged from the mailbox, including the deleted items folder?
Information, links, and comments are all welcome.
TIA.

Hi,
Do you mean that there are many test mailbox and you want to remove them? As far as I know, those account is used for synthetic transaction tests for the Exchange. Those synthetic transactions will perform several tests on your Exchange infrastructure
and warn you if there is a problem with your mail flow. In order to perform such tests the requirement is to have specific users with mailboxes created. Those users is created by script named New-TestCasConnectivityUser.ps1.
Each site will have a test account, please refer to the below link for more details:
http://stefanroth.net/2013/02/09/scom-exchange-2010-mp-extest_-user/
From my point of view, we can remove those account, but then the script can create them again.
If you don't create a test mailbox on one or more Mailbox servers, the Management Pack will return the following warning: “The test mailbox was not initialized. Run new-TestCasConnectivityUser.ps1 to ensure that the test mailbox is created.”
More details:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee758052(v=exchg.140).aspx
Regards,
Yan Li
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