Hello-
I have had a strange problem start happening to my Imail server (patched to
the latest and greatest of 6.06) running on Win2K server. I have had this
server up and running for about a little over a year with few problems.
This problem started happening a couple of months ago.
Once in a while, in the middle of the night, incoming mail gets hung in the
spool directory. Messages sent to another user on the same server get
delivered, but incoming mail from the outside world starts filling up the
spool directory. Before I know it I have 20,000 files in the spool
directory and users aren't getting their mail.
To fix the problem, I start to move files out to a hold directory and wait
for the messages to start to start going through.
This sounds like a corrupted message problem, but why would I just start
having this problem all of a sudden?
Is there anyway to search for the message that is holding up the entire
queue?
And- how does the message get corrupted in the first place? Does this
indicate a problem with the file system? Or is the message screwy when it
comes in?
I am running NTFS compression on the users' mailboxes, but haven't had a
problem until now.
Any recommendations? What should I look for in the logs? Am I being naive
about something?
Thanks
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