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. To >> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >> at http://www.mail-archive.com. >> >> > > >--- >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > >--- >This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >at http://www.mail-archive.com. >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > --- [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. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
