Okay I will have another go with your scenario tomorrow.
You answered : What version of Exchange? With 8 SP 4.. whcih I assume is your EV version. What version of Exchange is it?
With regards to the journal .. what I'm asking is what does your journal message look like in the journal mailbox, BEFORE, the Journal Task picks it up, for processing.
What I did with my testing is to stop the journal task, send the test message, check the journal mailbox (opened it from a client machine, or you can open it from the Enterprise Vault Server), then, start the journal task and watch what happens to it.
