Hard disk space? Fragmentation? Corrupt file somewhere? John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Hiller > Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 1:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] loads of mail in spool > > Thanks for the info. Now that I know what's going on, we can take a > course of action to find out where it may be coming from and put a stop to > it. > > Does anyone have any suggestions about my other issue? I have several > users whose mailboxes are growing in size every time they logon. The > actual main.mbx file is small (i.e. 55 KB), but in IMail Admin it shows it > as being 29.8 MB. They next they login it is 31.1 MB, etc., etc. you get > the picture. This puts them way over the allotment they are give and they > cannot receive any more mail. The average growth per login is about 1.3 > MB. Does anyone know why this is happening? Why would their mailbox be > so grossly misrepresented and how can I fix this? > > I have already experimented with a few things by duplicating a problem > account and playing around Even if I put in a empty mailbox file, the > indicator still shows the overblown amount. I am getting more reports of > this by the minute. Anyone have any insight into this? Thanks. > > Ron > > -----Original Message----- > From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: November 28, 2003 2:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] loads of mail in spool > > > > >A new discovery. I have gone through the SMTP logs and there are many > >occurrances of invalid addresses. The odd thing is that they all contain > >our domain, but here is the funny thing. The usernames all appear to be > >either first names, last names concatinations of the two or misspelled > >usernames of people who exist on either our IMail server or our Exchange > >server. Could there be a virus at work here or some kind of attack? It > >all seems very weird. > > That's called a dictionary attack, and is very, very common these days. > It > is used by spammers to find addresses on your domain to spam. > > > -Scott > --- > Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers. > Declude Virus: Catches known viruses and is the leader in mailserver > vulnerability detection. > Find out what you've been missing: Ask about our free 30-day evaluation. > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] > > > 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/ > > 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/ 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/
