> 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.
What if nobody is a real address? Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] tricks for dealing with null senders? > 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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