Due to these overwhelming SMTP connections, it comes as no surprise that the processor on this 64bit OS box went on overtime. The Exchange SMTP runs on an Image called EdgeTransport.exe and this piece went over 50% of processor time most of the time. It even reached 99% at some points when im not looking
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Anyway, fact is, using EMC's GUI will take hours! to clean up e.g. 100,000 emails (and counting). So i decided to hit the kitchen sink with the SMTP queues in Exchange by deleting the them through Explorer.
In essence, to completely wipe out the queues in Exchange 07 perform the following;
- Stop Exchange Transport
- Browse to the folder where mail.que is stored (our server was in mail.que at c:\program files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\TransportRoles\data\Queue)
- Delete or move everything there
- Start the Exchange Transport
- Open up Queue Viewer, and verify that every thing's cleared..Exchange has now recreated mail.que and associated files like in the beginning of time..
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Now, more importantly, close that relay! and enjoy Exchange 2007. PS. I do not warrant against klutziness and failure to backup/test backups. I don't even think MS approves of such vicious method, but it worked like a charm and i swooped 1GB of smtp spam in 2 minutes
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