Removing Old Logs

[mdj1]

I've tried to seach here there and everywhere, but to no avail.

Is there a setting that purges all the ME log files after X days as its filling my harddrive!

[MailEnable-Ben]

I usually just configure a batch file that runs on a schedule.

[mdj1]

Hi There,

Could you give us an example of this?

[MailEnable-Ben]

net stop meimaps
del "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\smtp\*.*,y
net start meimaps
net stop mepops
del "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\pop\*.*,y
net start mepops

This will delete all the logs for smtp and pop

[iamme]

Hi,

You could also download a copy of "fileremover".

Then setup the batch file to run (see below)

Just google "fileremover". It is the first result.

Cheers Steve

fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\HTTPMAIL
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\IMAP
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\LS
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\MEAVgen
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\MTA
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\MTAFilter
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\POP
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\POPC
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\SF
fileremover 8 *.log C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\SMTP

[MailEnable-Ben]

Have you tested the fileremover in this manner Steve does it handle the fact that the services will have some of the files locked, preventing the deletion?

[iamme]

Hey Ben,

Well yes and no.

No because I haven't, but yes because if you add the criteria "path to program - # of days old to delete - What to delete - Path of the file/s to delete, as in my batch file in prevuous post, and as long as the criteria for # of days old to delete is greater than 1 then it won't be locked, will it?

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers Steve

[MailEnable-Ben]

Yep cool that makes sense and will work, should have realised what the 8 was - cheers.

[mdj1]

Hi Guys,

The link is here and it has a nifty bit about mailenable

http://www.chenry.com/fileremover/

[MailEnable-Ben]

Thanks Mark thats great

[MrByte]

Mark, nice little nifty util

[mdj1]

Don't thank me.

I just asked the question, got some answers from the other poster. Im supprised its not come up before though.

[whizzbang]

Hi all

Any idea what happened to the scipt that was available at www.chenry.com?

If anyone has a copy, would they email it me at wizard AT sybaweb.com

TIA
Peter

[MailEnable-Ben]

Hi guys I found a new util that will auto delete your logs as it seems the link in this thread is now defunct.

Here is a new web site;

http://www.freewarefiles.com/

The name of the application is;

FileDelete24
(copy filedelete24.exe to \mailenable\bin)

And here is a batch file you can run from scheduler to delete the logs older than 7 days old. The paths will have to be edited if you have changed the MailEnable paths from default.

Code: Select all

filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\httpmail" *.log 7
filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\imap" *.log 7
filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\ls" *.log 7
filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\mta" *.log 7
filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\pop" *.log 7
filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\popc" *.log 7
filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\radms" *.log 7
filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\sf" *.log 7
filedelete24 "C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\Logging\smtp" *.log 7

[slickuser]

The filedelete24 method did not work for me. Here is another solution using the windows tool "forfiles" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... S.10).aspx.

In a batch file you can remove all log files not within the last 7 days by using:

forfiles /s /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"

This will recursively track down all .log files that are older than 7 days and delete them.

You can delete the different logging folders separately using:

forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\httpmail" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"
forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\imap" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"
forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\ls" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"
forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\mta" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"
forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\pop" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"
forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\popc" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"
forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\radms" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"
forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\sf" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"
forfiles /p "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Logging\smtp" /m *.log /d -7 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"

Read the Microsoft link to review the functionality of forfiles.