Hi Len

Thanks for the help. I've change the spool directory. Any idea how come
this IP manage to Queue so many emails on my server despite it is not in
my relay list?

Bo Wee

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: Friday, 17 January 2003 11:57 AM
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


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