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as above they can be moved or deleted they are just logs for your service. you can configure the amount of time you keep thses logs in ESM for future reference
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as above they can be moved or deleted they are just logs for your service. you can configure the amount of time you keep thses logs in ESM for future reference

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You can delete them or move them... either is fine though I would suggesting moving them if possible or backing them up before deleting them.
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You can delete them or move them... either is fine though I would suggesting moving them if possible or backing them up before deleting them.

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For future posts ...<br />
This answer would be really helpful if you actually posted the steps to reconfigure the Exchange Server to move the location of the SMTPSVC1 log files. 
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For future posts ...
This answer would be really helpful if you actually posted the steps to reconfigure the Exchange Server to move the location of the SMTPSVC1 log files.

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under the file location C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFil<wbr />es, we have 2 folders of large size;<br />
W3SVC1 and SMTPSVC1. can &nbsp;the logs in them be deleted or move? if yes any bad side effects?
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under the file location C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles, we have 2 folders of large size;
W3SVC1 and SMTPSVC1. can  the logs in them be deleted or move? if yes any bad side effects?

Can log files be deleted or moved?

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.

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