>Your method was very helpful. I think I may have narrowed it down to a
>couple of messages (so far, I still have 6,000 messages to go)
hmmm, today's 28 Oct. Let's know when you finish. vbg
>but one message in particular I am unable to delete. It's got the ~
>symbol in the queue and spool directory so it's in process. I
>delete it out of the queue,
>but it keeps coming back.
That's not a zombie, it' a dracula, needs a wooden stake through its
header lines.
>I delete out of the spool directory, but it keeps magically reappearing.
voodoo's like that. better look up "queue" in the KB. might get some ideas.
I think you should stop the SMTP, kill that msg, don't restart SMTP
but reboot the machine (maybe theres a bad SMTPD that keeps writing
bad msgs, hey, just guessin wildly).
>I delete it out of the spool and queue
>simultaneously and, you guessed it, it's there again. I figure out this
>rate, I've got a "special" server on my hands, a magical server. I probably
>will be able to retire from the fame and fortune it's going to bring me.
Right between the retpile tank and bearded lady ...
> Also, I'm curious, how does this happen in the first place?
Guess is that there are a bad msgs that Imail's "SMPT-" chokes
on. That really shouldn't happen to SMTP, but remember it is only
the the Imail SMPTD process that writes to the queue, so it's writing
the bad msgs. IF that is the situation.
> What causes a message to go bad and how can I prevent it from happening?
Not much you can do. IF the poison msg it really the pb, then only
Ipswitch can prevent it by improving their SMTP code.
> It looks like the message was one that was sent out to a small
list (about 3000 members).
Yes, that would a very unhappy occurrence.
Len
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