It looks like someone is using you as a mail relay. We had the same problem until I
selectively shut off (kill.lst) the offending parties.
Look under Imail Manager, services, SMTP, SMTP Security.
Also, make sure that "Refuse NULL <> senders is checked"
I had to do a bit of checking on various senders, but it sure cut down on the spammers
using us.
>Our system started having problems 6 days ago and continues as I write. It is Imail
>6.04 on Dual Pentium 750 with 512 Megs of Ram. Our log files started running daily
>175 to 200 Megs where normally they are only 25 to 30 Megs. Running Qslice.exe
>on the desktop it shows normally 10 to 30 smtp sessions and now is running 150-300
>sessions.
>Our spool directory is normally 250 to 300 files and now it is running from 3,500 to
>7,000
>files. A snippet of the log is below and I have noticed thousands of lines mentioning
>excite.com
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