Re: Some badmail info
- From: "Michael B. Smith" <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:47:27 -0400
1) Even though the window is small, deleting files from under the SMTP
service while it's running can be A Bad Thing (tm). (Primarily event log
entries because the SMTP service may look for a file after it has been
deleted, or your batch file may abort because it tries to delete a file
that the SMTP service has locked.)
2) It renames the BadMail directory - when the SMTP service starts, and
the BadMail directory doesn't exist, a new one is automatically created
(this is documented and supported behavior).
3) It immediately restarts the SMTP service (to minimize the downtime -
if you wait until you've deleted all the files, your SMTP service could
be down for a long time.
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From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:12 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Some badmail info
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Michael, why would you need to stop any service to delete files in the
badmail folder, as those are effectively dead files?
John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:18 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Some badmail info
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Here is something somewhat improved. This will minimize your downtime:
net stop smtpsvc
cd "\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1"
rename BadMail Badmail-save
net start smtpsvc
cd Badmail-save
del /Q *.*
cd ..
rmdir Badmail-save
And if the server is at least Exchange 2000 sp 3 or above, Microsoft's
tool is:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=782aaf0f-6239-4
0ad-adda-97863d852ff7&DisplayLang=en
And this was a good idea, so I wrote a blog entry about it:
http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2004/09/08/203.aspx
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