This is a good point Joe, I will consider this and change settings if it
occurs again. I also noticed something which might be useful to my
situation, there were a large amount of T files in the queue. I believe this
means that Imail was still in the process of receiving the mail or thought
it was and therefore was not actually processing most of the 32000 files. I
still have no idea if the problem was on my end or on the senders' end. As a
result I have not kill listed them.
Craig.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Wolf /
CompuSystems
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 32000 files
Craig... and others,
I am not certain about your exact problem, but it sounds like a problem that
I have been working on with senior Ipswitch support. This problem is
documented on versions 6.04 and higher.
Here's the scoop: When Imail attempts to send a message from the queue it
opens a smtp32 process. If the message is delivered that smtp32 process is
closed. If that message is not deliverable on the FIRST attempt (not a
bounce) Imail looks at your SMTP settings for number of retries, and retry
timer. The smpt32 process is NOT closed. Imail has a limit of 32 open
smtp32 processes. Once you have 32 open smpt32 processes Imail stops
processing the queue until one of the undeliverable messages is delivered,
or the number of retries, and timer expires. This could be days depending
on your SMTP settings!
If you have your SMTP tries set to say 48 and your queue timer set to 30
minutes you can not have over 32 undeliverable messages in any 2 day period
or Imail will slow to a crawl and files will pile up in your queue. The log
files get HUGE.
The way to solve the problem until Ipswitch fixes the program is to
drastically cut down your retry number. I am now running at 2 retires at 10
minutes. Since making those changes Imail will continue to run. If I
change it back to higher numbers Imail builds up HUGE numbers of files in
the queue and slows to a crawl. The problem with these low settings is that
you end up bouncing allot of outgoing mail that should have been delivered
under normal circumstances.
Good luck,
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Gittens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "IMail_Forum@list. ipswitch. com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 6:39 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] 32000 files
> Hey guys,
>
> I have a huge problem, my mail server, Imail upgraded several times from 5
> to 6.05. I have a big problem right now. I have 32,000 files in my spool
> directory and 4 days of log files that are about 1 GB. Spoolclean won't
> delete the log files (sysxxxxxx) and Imail reports only 200 items in its
> queue. (32000 files?) I have tried stopping all Imail services, moving the
> log files, deleting them, spool cleaning them out of existence. Nothing
> works. What's up with that and 32000 files? It doesn't look like a
spammer.
> I have looked at some of these files by time to see if there are any
> similarities.
>
> Does anyone know of a windows program that will open a log file that is
> 600MB?
>
> Craig.
>
>
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