OK, did all that. I renamed and deleted badmail. Used the DOS command and got rid of 63000+ files in 5 minutes. Now I tested sending to frank@xxxxxxxxxxx (does not exist) and with the NDRs disabled as previously mentioned the message did not go into the badmail directory. On the other hand it generated a warning in the Appl Event Log as follows: Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeTransport Event Category: Connection Manager=20 Event ID: 756 Date: 1/28/2004 Time: 11:12:16 PM User: N/A Computer: XXXXXX Description: A non-delivery report with a status code of 5.1.1 was generated for = recipient rfc822;frank@xxxxxxxxxxx (Message-ID <000001c3e61e$14123210$6545a8c0@GORAN>). Data: 0000: 46 05 04 80 F Oh it is so wonderful when you go and look it up http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;308323 I had my diagnostic logging on. Duh. So now no badmail files and no events clogging up my application log. Wonderful just what I want. Goran Jovanovic The LAN Shoppe 2345 Yonge Street, Suite 302 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2E5 Phone: (416) 440-1167 x-2113 Cell: (416) 931-0688 E-Mail: gjovanovic@xxxxxxxxxxx