Great Dave, thanks a lot for the help. I'll make some changes and keep an eye on it.
Cheers Royce CICI At 03:14 PM 15/04/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Royce- > >Sounds like you've got a few things going on there. Understand, I'm on >version 8.05 now, so your mileage may vary. I'll try to keep it the basics. > >First off, it sounds to me like you have too much stuff in your spool >directory. > >I suggest that you zip your older log files and move them out of the spool >directory. > >You should be able to delete all spool files older than one or two days if >you use normal SMTP retry settings like ten attempts half an hour apart. > >How large are the attachment files? They may be stuck in the queue because >they were never delivered. That can happen if they are large, particularly >larger than 2MB. > >If you have no lists, you should not have an imailsrv alias. Delete that if >it's present. > >Delete the nobody alias if it's present. That will let Imail reject >misaddressed messages before it processes them. This is way more efficient, >and it should cut down on your processor and disk activity quite a lot. > >Maybe others here have more / better suggestions. > >-Dave Doherty > Skywaves, Inc. > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Royce Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:06 AM >Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] tricks for dealing with null senders? > > >> Hi Dave, >> thanks for the response. >> >> I'm not sure of the mechanics of rejection, all I did to stop this for now >> was to check the "reject null senders" box in smtp security. Please >> understand that I'm just a guy who got stuck with this job, and 90% of the >> conversation in this list is over my head :D >> >> Originally this iwebmsg power consumption was happening by means of null >> senders sending messages to imailsrv which was generating tons of "illegal >> list commands" in the log, I got around this by renaming imailsrv.exe to >> something else which got the log files down to 4 or 5 mbs a day instead of >> 70 or 80. We don't have any need for the imailsrv function, so I thought >> what the heck... This lasted for a few weeks, but now it's happening >again, >> although not to the same extent. I was previously getting somewhere around >> 170,000 of these a day. I'm seeing that a few of them are now starting to >> send to listserv. >> >> The log files are now at around 7 or 8 mbs, I'm getting about 2000 of >these >> null senders a day now, which really shouldn't bother. I do have a number >> of tmp files in the spool directory which I wasn't getting before I >renamed >> the imailsrv.exe, strangely these tmp files don't look as though they are >> related to any attempt to send a message to imailsrv. Weird. >> Another thing that is goofy is that I have a couple of users whose >> attachments seem to stay in the spool directory for ever and ever, is that >> normal for a user that pretty much exclusively uses the web mail function? >> spool directory size is usually about 60 or 70 mbs, with about 100 or 150 >> files in it. I usually keep about a months worth of logs in the spool. >> >> any suggestions? i'm waiting to get a bunch of postmaster messages from >> rfc-ignorant while i have things set this way. >> >> cheers >> Royce >> >> >> >> At 10:11 PM 14/04/2004 -0400, you wrote: >> >Hi Royce- >> > >> >How are you rejecting the messages? Do you use a nobody alias with an >> >autoresponse, or do you just let Imail return the standard error message? >> >Any idea how many you're getting? >> > >> >It seems odd that this would effect iwebmsg. Look for another problem >> >somewhere. How many files do you have in your spool directory? >> > >> >-Dave >> > >> > >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: "Royce Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:43 PM >> >Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] tricks for dealing with null senders? >> > >> > >> >> Using Imail 6.05, and Declude 1.79 beta on NT4.0 >> >> >> >> >> >> I've had a spate of crud flowing in the last week or so from >> >> <>@variousaddresses addressed to >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], which of course get >> >turned >> >> away as the addressee is unknown to my mail server. Unfortunately there >> >> seems to be such a flood of the damned things that it ends up stalling >the >> >> iwebmsg service and consuming 100% cpu so a number of times a day I >have >> >to >> >> shut the iwebmsg service down, which can take up to 20 minutes to >> >accomplish. >> >> >> >> I've had to turn off accepting null senders just to grab my breath. >Whats >> >> the quick and dirty solution, some sort of hold action? is there a way >to >> >> configure a declude test to action these messages? >> >> >> >> please forgive if this seems a stupid question, i'm pretty foggy after >a 4 >> >> AM hard drive replacement on a different machine.... >> >> >> >> Thanks for any answers >> >> >> >> Royce Burnett >> >> CICI >> >> >> >> --- >> >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> >> >> --- >> >> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus >> >(http://www.declude.com)] >> >> >> >> --- >> >> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. 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