Listen to this one.. it's on target! ~Rick
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] HELP - Imail Problem > > > > >Can anyone help !!!!! > > yes!!!!! > > >My imail server crashed yesterday and I notice I got a log file that is > >more than 300MB where normally is only 6MB-7MB and there are thousands > >of mail stuck in the spool directory. > > move the entire spool/ to another directory > > >I open up the log file and I > >notice an IP address always appear in the log and it is not in my relay > >list so I don't know how come all these mail ended up in my spool. Is > >there a BUG in IMAIL??? > > not probable > > >I really need someone advice on this because my > >server is still busy processing the mails. I can block the IP Address > > then do it. > > >but I really need to find out what went wrong here. > > no, first, cleanup the mess and get your server runnning. > > move the entire spool/ to spool/save/ (this contains mostly > crap, but some > good mail, the latter you need to find and move back to spool/. now your > server can work again. > > Write a batch script like this pseudo-code > > for f in (dir spool/save); do > if (find "ip.ad.re.ss" spool/save/$f) > del spool/save/$f > done > > For every file in the spool/save directory, if the file contains the > string "ip.ad.re.ss" of the spammer, delete the file. > > When that's done, move all the remaining files from spool/save/ to spool/ > > Len > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. > > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
