Yes -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:46 PM To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spool size
OK, you need to train it so it only accepts inbound mail for valid addresses. Are both of the servers Imail boxes? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:34 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spool size > Thanks Dave. It's a backup mail server, so I will look and see if there > are > other things that might be causing this. > > Todd > > (a newbie who is tired of taking baby steps - I want to run!!!) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:23 PM > To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spool size > > I use a VBS script that calls a zipper utiliity. It's really easyonce you > have the utility. he one I use is ancient and hasn't been supported for > years. But there's lots of shareware out there and maybe even some > freeware. > > Is this a mailbox server or a gateway? > > If you have that many files building up on a mailbox server, then I > suspect > you have a bounce rule on a domain that is under attack. Check your > message > rules to see if somebody has a nobody alias and a rule that bounces > anything > > that doesn't match a name or two. > > If you have that many files on a gateway, then the gateway is accepting > mail > > that is unacceptable to the mailbox server. The best way to fix this is to > export the acceptable addresses from your mailbox server to your gateway > and > > set up the gateway to accept mail only for those addresses. he the gateway > can issue 550 errors instead of bounce messages. It will save a lot on > bandwidth also. > > -d > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:59 PM > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spool size > > >> Thanks Dave. I set up the isplcln utility just a little bit ago. >> However, >> a lot of those .gse files were from today! So even if I had it set up on >> a >> daily basis, there are still several thousand postmaster messages in >> there >> from today that wouldn't get deleted until tomorrow. If that's not a >> problem then I'm set. >> >> Do you just archive your log files manually, or do you have a script that >> you use? >> >> Todd >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty >> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:58 PM >> To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com >> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spool size >> >> You can download the Imail spool cleaner utility from their website. >> Call >> it nightly as follows: >> >> isplcln -n 1 -l 5 >> >> -n refers to the age of the files to delete. This applies to all but log >> files. >> -l refers to the age of the log files to delete. >> >> In both cases, the number says how old they fiels should be days. >> >> So my command line deletes all surplus files over one day old, and all >> log >> fuiles over 5 days old. I zip my log files and place them in an archive >> directory anyway, so the log part is pretty much immaterial on my system. >> >> -d >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> >> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:28 PM >> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spool size >> >> >>> Going through the spool folder I found that there were 22,000 ".gse" >>> files >>> (which I see are generated by the postmaster). I looked at several of >>> them >>> and they were basically bounces from email addresses that didn't exist. >>> Is >>> there a reason to keep these (my gut says no). Also, Darin mentioned >>> that >> >>> I >>> can clean up files orphaned D* files without a matching Q file. Is >>> there >>> an >>> easy way to go through and do this without me having to look through >>> them >>> all? >>> >>> Thanks again, >>> >>> Todd >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrell >>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:00 AM >>> To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com >>> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spool size >>> >>> Yes, this indicates a problem. We run about 125-150K messages a day >>> (96-98%) filtered out by Declude, but in general we only have approx 300 >>> or >>> so files in the spool. I have my QueueMon settings to alert us when it >>> gets >>> >>> over 500. >>> >>> You need to start looking at those files and figure out what is wrong. >>> >>> Darrell >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for utilities for Declude And >>> Imail. IMail/Declude Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI integration, >>> MRTG >>> >>> Integration, and Log Parsers. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> >>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:13 AM >>> Subject: [IMail Forum] Spool size >>> >>> >>>> How many files are too many in the spool? Our backup mail server's >>>> spool >>>> seems to grow by the day, and is currently at 56K files. The file >>>> types >>>> vary, but does this suggest a problem somewhere? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Todd >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> Todd Richards >>>> National Network, Inc. >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> 402.778.7903 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >>>> List Archive: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >>>> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >>>> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >>> List Archive: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >>> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >>> List Archive: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >>> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >>> >>> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> List Archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> >> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> List Archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> >> > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
