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INFO: Why Does a Copy of Each Email Message End Up in the Exchange Badmail Folder?

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MailMarshal ECM/MailMarshal Exchange 5.0

Symptoms:

The original email message is delivered, but a copy of each email ends up in the Exchange badmail folder.
Microsoft Exchange message archiving or journaling is enabled.

Causes:

When journaling is enabled, Microsoft Exchange creates a copy of every message each time it is processed by the categorizer - one copy for delivery and one copy for the archive. MailMarshal Exchange processes one of the copies and if it doesn't trigger on a rule, resubmits it back to Exchange for delivery. Exchange makes another copy of the resubmitted message, leaving three messages in Exchange. Exchange sees that two of the messages are duplicates - it delivers one copy, archives another copy and puts the third (duplicate) copy in the badmail folder.

Information:

Turn off message archiving/journaling in MS Exchange and configure MailMarshal Exchange to archive messages.

To turn off message archiving/journaling in MS Exchange:

On the Mailbox Store properties, disable Archive all messages sent or received by mailboxes on this store.

To archive messages using MailMarshal for Exchange:

Create a rule in the incoming, outgoing and internal rulesets. The rules should look similar to this:
Copy the message to 'Archive Folder' And pass the message to the next rule for processing