> > Unless you were expecting 8,000 messages, this is what
> > should surprise
> > you. You do know that these messages are for you, so
> > you've opened them...
>
>No, I do not know this. The 8,000 messages were OUTGOING messages,
>not INCOMING. Why do you assume everything in the \spool folder is
>incoming mail?
When you said the 8,000 messages were all your own, I assumed you meant
that they were incoming messages. If you were sending 8,000 messages, that
would certainly explain why the spool started to overflow.
> > so what are they? Do you normally have 8,000 messages
> > waiting for you, or
> > did something go awry (someone mailbombing you, was there
> > a mail loop, etc.)?
>
>We have a client list of subscribers of over 12,000. This is a
>daily mailing list, so 8,000 messages in the spool would seem to
>indicate that alot of outbound mail was stuck in the queue.
You might want to play with the "Number of recipients per message" option
(in the IMail Administrator when managing the mailing list). If you
increase this number, each SMTP process will have more E-mails that it has
to deliver, but that will also mean fewer files backed up in the
queue. For example, if you use the default setting of 25, IMail will
create 480 files in the queue (and start 30 processes to send them out
with). But, if you use IMail's recommended setting of 480, that would be
only 25 files in the spool, and there will be 25 SMTP processes working on
sending them out (which is about the maximum number of SMTP processes).
-Scott
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