Deleting 800,000 bad mail files

[jlong07]

Hello,

I have Win 2003 Server running Exchange Server 2003. I have recently run into a major problem with server slow down. I am trying to troubleshoot this and I found that the badmail folder for the exchange server "c:\program files\exchsrvr\mailroot\vsi\badmail" has around 800,000 files in it. I have tried deleting these files, but the server just seems to laugh at me when I try. How can I purge this directory without the operating system having to delete each file individually.

 

[Bluenose]

Have you tried deleting them from the command prompt?

 

[jlong07]

I have tried it with the commands I know. Unless you know a different command than del *.* or deltree then that won't work. Both of those commands delete each file individually.

 

[tmckeown]

I just set up a bat file to handle this once per day.

del "f:\Exchange\Mailroot\vsi 1\badmail\*.*" /Q