Throttling policies and clearing drafts folder

Hi all,
We run Exchange 2010 SP3. We recently had an issue where a users password was compromised due to a phishing email. Our Barracuda Spam firewall prevented
much of it from getting out into the Internet, but the Exchange queue between our CAS servers and the Barracuda got so big that no email was being sent at all. To try and prevent this from happening again I am testing out using Exchange throttling policies.
I have tested out the following policy that only allows users to send out one email message per minute:
new-throttlingPolicy -name LimitMessages -MessageRateLimit 1
I tested this policy on my own account, I noticed that you can send as many messages as you want, but they'll just end up in the drafts folder and eek out one
minute at a time. Which is great, i'd rather this happen than email be down. However, when I tried to empty my drafts folder, I got the following error:
"Some items cannot be deleted. They were either moved or already deleted, or access was denied"
After getting this message, the drafts folder looks clear for a second, but then all of the messages come right back. This creates a problem as, if someones
password gets compromised again, their drafts folder could potentially have 10s of thousands of email messages in it, waiting to be sent out. How would I delete them all?

Hi,
I recommend you check the size of the dumpster, if the dumpster is full, may caused this issue.
You can try the following method and check if any helps:
1.Run the following command to clean the dumpster out:
Search-mailbox -identity userid -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent
2.If the issue persist, try to move the mailbox to other database and check the result.
Thanks.
Niko Cheng
TechNet Community Support

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1602765
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