XADM: You Cannot Delete Non-Delivery Reports from Installable File System; Fix Requires Exchange 2000 SP2

If you use Microsoft Windows Explorer to try to delete a non-delivery report (NDR) from drive M, you may receive the following error message:

This problem can occur if the NDR responses have the message class REPORT.IPM; the Exwin32 interface does not support the REPORT.IPM message class and therefore cannot delete these messages.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

Component: Installable File System (IFS)

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 3.