Somebody had the stellar idea to shove all undeliverable mail into a directory called badmail when sending through IIS (Inetput/mailroot/badmail on my server).
This folder filled up my entire hard drive. With hundreds of thousands of 1kb to about 3kb files. With an average OS using a 64k or 128k block size, that eats up more space that you would believe. Several gigabytes of space, to be exact. The irony is what’s taking up the most of that room—empty space.
There are no settings to control how big to let it grow, nor is there a reasonable way to be warned about it, or even empty it. I first made the mistake of opening the folder—it hung my filesharing system. I opened a DOS prompt and began erasing files there, but stopped it after about 15 minutes of not knowing what the status was. I then opened the badmail folder, and only had roughly 53,000 files left. I can only imagine how many hundreds of thousands I had in there to begin with. Morons.
Last night (after the company appreciation cruise on Lake Coeur d’Alene for being #1 in the market in May) we went and saw The Lake House. My wife loved it. It’s a total chick-flick, but you’ll probably get bonus points for taking your sweetheart to see it. The movie was pretty good, but it’s hard to get past seeing Keanu Reeves as he was in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.