Re: badmail folder

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From: Henrik Walther [MVP] (spam_at_exchange-faq.dk)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:01:37 +0200

smw wrote:
> We have Exchange 2000 and don't want any messages to be
> saved to the badmail folder. If I understand it
> correctly, the messages sent there are messages being sent
> from our mail server that are undeliverable. Can we
> disable this?

Unfortunately you can disable this in Exchange 2000 (only in Exchange 2003
SP1), but why not schedule a script to take care of these bad messages?

You can use the one Microsoft have created for Exchange 2003:

Download details: Exchange 2003: Badmail Deletion and Archiving:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=782AAF0F-6239-40AD-ADDA-97863D852FF7&displaylang=en 

-- 
Henrik Walther
Exchange MVP
Exchange-faq.dk
MSExchange.org

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