Hi Daniel, I've had problems in the past - specially when larger mass mailings lead to thousands of vacation, bounce and delay messages hitting the server in a short time span. But there had also been times where individual emails caused crashes in either Imail or Declude.
I had created a small batch procedures that I would quickly run to move pending work to a "hold" folder I had created, similar to this: move /Y D:\IMail\spool\q*.gsc D:\IMail\Spool\Hold\ move /Y D:\IMail\spool\q*.vac D:\IMail\Spool\Hold\ move /Y D:\IMail\spool\q*.gse D:\IMail\Spool\Hold\ move /Y D:\IMail\spool\q*.lst D:\IMail\Spool\Hold\ move /Y D:\IMail\spool\q*.rst D:\IMail\Spool\Hold\ I would have to rerun this a few times over 10 minutes before things quieted down and then I'd be able to work through the logs to figure out any problem in Imail, Declude, etc. Also, I would check for large number of files in: \IMail\spool\proc \IMail\spool\proc\work and, if necessary, temporarily move them to a \IMail\spool\proc\hold folder. None of this might apply in your case - but I've always found it helpful to temporarily set aside any "current" emails because often the culprit was amongst those. The I would drag 5% of the files back to "spool" or "proc" and make sure they process successful before moving to the next batch... Best Regards, Andy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Cummins Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MBF]Re: declude stops working I had to play that game a long time ago. Declude would get overwhelmed when we were experiencing a spam wave. Putting an Alligate in front of the Declude server pretty much ended it permanently. Before I did that I played with balancing my THREADS, and examining what my third party applications were doing, fine-tuning their config to speed them up, or commenting them out entirely. You don't have to reboot. (or at least, I didn't) You can just kill the decludeproc and it will restart. I vaguely remember something about looking for mail that was being held during the lock-up and resubmitting it, but it's been a while. - Michael Cummins -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 8:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MBF]Re: declude stops working Hi Daniel, Are you certain it is the Declude process that stopped? We've had issues with IMail's SMTP and POP server stopping, but not with Declude. Darin. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Ivey Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 7:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MBF]declude stops working I have an issue that has been going on for a few weeks. I have 2 Windows 2003 Imail 8.22 servers running the latest version of Declude with Message Sniffer. For some reason, Declude just stops working for no reason. The process is still running, but the threads are not changing and no messages are being processed. If I reboot the server, the issue is resolved for about another few days. Has anyone else had this problem or have any ideas on what to check? Daniel ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> Send administrative queries to <[email protected]> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> Send administrative queries to <[email protected]> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> Send administrative queries to <[email protected]> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> Send administrative queries to <[email protected]>
