We had an internal app fill our queue with about 200,000 messages-now our maildelivery is at a crawl. Im deleting thru ESM but slowly. Can anyone tell me a quick way top mass delete? IS there a disk location? thanks craig

Check the properties of your default SMTP Virtual Server under Protocols \ SMTP. That will tell you where the Queue directory is. Neill

Thanks, is it safe to delete all *.eml files in this dir?

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:27:19 +0000, Craig_A_N wrote: >Thanks, is it safe to delete all *.eml files in this dir? Stop the transport service first. Just be careful with what you delete since there are probably good messages mixed with the bad. It might be a better idea to create a new directory on the same disk and MOVE (don't copy) the files to that directory and then restart the transport service Then remove the junk for that directory and MOVE the good stuff back to the replay (or pickup) directory (NOT to the queue directory). --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Thanks, I have it in safe mode now. I was going to move all *.eml to another folder if time permits. I was only concerned about deleting a critical file. craig

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:53:19 +0000, Craig_A_N wrote: >Thanks, I have it in safe mode now. I was going to move all *.eml to another folder if time permits. I was only concerned about deleting a critical file. A move operation happens pretty quickly since it's only moving the location of the file, not the actual data. FYI, the messages in the queue directory contain alternate data streams (ADS) with the data and routing information stored separately in the same file. If you're not careful with the files you may lose the original recipients (i.e. the contents of the RCPT TO commands) or you may send e-mail to addresses you shouldn't be sending to (e.g. "To:" and "Cc:" recipients that appear in the RCF2822 message headers but were NOT in the RCPT TO commands). It's just something to keep in mind. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Thanks. Im not to concerned about loosing anything as we have been queing at postini/google since early this AM. At this point t just want to clear the queue craig

As Rich has mentioned you need to move the files. You can also rename the SMTP folder after stopping the relevant service and create a blank new one and move few *.eml at a time as it will start replaying..