>We stop the Imail services for some time to take the backup. We notice, >the mails that are in spool (queue) before stopping the services are >never delivered after the services are started back. The sender does not >even get the NDR. The files in the spool directory just remain there >forever (till we delete them manually). But any new mails happily come >and go. > >Can someone help me solve this?
If there is a D*.SMD file with no matching Q*.SMD file, it's a "double-bounce" (it couldn't be delivered to the recipient, or bounced to the sender). It's normal to occasionally see those. Note that after a reboot, IMail will still "work the queue". IMail doesn't keep any information about the queue in memory, it's all sitting in the queue. So it shouldn't matter whether or not a reboot occured recently. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/