You mean as a mailbox name instead of an alias? Good question. I don't know whether it would retain its wildcard capabilities or not., never tried it.
-Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] tricks for dealing with null senders? > > Delete the nobody alias if it's present. That will let Imail reject > > misaddressed messages before it processes them. This is way more > efficient, > > and it should cut down on your processor and disk activity quite a lot. > > What if nobody is a real address? > > Robert > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dave Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:14 PM > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] tricks for dealing with null senders? > > > > Hi Royce- > > > > Sounds like you've got a few things going on there. Understand, I'm on > > version 8.05 now, so your mileage may vary. I'll try to keep it the > basics. > > > > First off, it sounds to me like you have too much stuff in your spool > > directory. > > > > I suggest that you zip your older log files and move them out of the spool > > directory. > > > > You should be able to delete all spool files older than one or two days if > > you use normal SMTP retry settings like ten attempts half an hour apart. > > > > How large are the attachment files? They may be stuck in the queue because > > they were never delivered. That can happen if they are large, particularly > > larger than 2MB. > > > > If you have no lists, you should not have an imailsrv alias. Delete that > if > > it's present. > > > > Delete the nobody alias if it's present. That will let Imail reject > > misaddressed messages before it processes them. This is way more > efficient, > > and it should cut down on your processor and disk activity quite a lot. > > > > Maybe others here have more / better suggestions. > > > > -Dave Doherty > > Skywaves, Inc. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Royce Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:06 AM > > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] tricks for dealing with null senders? > > > > > > > Hi Dave, > > > thanks for the response. > > > > > > I'm not sure of the mechanics of rejection, all I did to stop this for > now > > > was to check the "reject null senders" box in smtp security. Please > > > understand that I'm just a guy who got stuck with this job, and 90% of > the > > > conversation in this list is over my head :D > > > > > > Originally this iwebmsg power consumption was happening by means of null > > > senders sending messages to imailsrv which was generating tons of > "illegal > > > list commands" in the log, I got around this by renaming imailsrv.exe to > > > something else which got the log files down to 4 or 5 mbs a day instead > of > > > 70 or 80. We don't have any need for the imailsrv function, so I thought > > > what the heck... This lasted for a few weeks, but now it's happening > > again, > > > although not to the same extent. I was previously getting somewhere > around > > > 170,000 of these a day. I'm seeing that a few of them are now starting > to > > > send to listserv. > > > > > > The log files are now at around 7 or 8 mbs, I'm getting about 2000 of > > these > > > null senders a day now, which really shouldn't bother. I do have a > number > > > of tmp files in the spool directory which I wasn't getting before I > > renamed > > > the imailsrv.exe, strangely these tmp files don't look as though they > are > > > related to any attempt to send a message to imailsrv. Weird. > > > Another thing that is goofy is that I have a couple of users whose > > > attachments seem to stay in the spool directory for ever and ever, is > that > > > normal for a user that pretty much exclusively uses the web mail > function? > > > spool directory size is usually about 60 or 70 mbs, with about 100 or > 150 > > > files in it. I usually keep about a months worth of logs in the spool. > > > > > > any suggestions? i'm waiting to get a bunch of postmaster messages from > > > rfc-ignorant while i have things set this way. > > > > > > cheers > > > Royce > > > > > > > > > > > > At 10:11 PM 14/04/2004 -0400, you wrote: > > > >Hi Royce- > > > > > > > >How are you rejecting the messages? Do you use a nobody alias with an > > > >autoresponse, or do you just let Imail return the standard error > message? > > > >Any idea how many you're getting? > > > > > > > >It seems odd that this would effect iwebmsg. Look for another problem > > > >somewhere. How many files do you have in your spool directory? > > > > > > > >-Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: "Royce Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:43 PM > > > >Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] tricks for dealing with null senders? > > > > > > > > > > > >> Using Imail 6.05, and Declude 1.79 beta on NT4.0 > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> I've had a spate of crud flowing in the last week or so from > > > >> <>@variousaddresses addressed to > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], which of course get > > > >turned > > > >> away as the addressee is unknown to my mail server. Unfortunately > there > > > >> seems to be such a flood of the damned things that it ends up > stalling > > the > > > >> iwebmsg service and consuming 100% cpu so a number of times a day I > > have > > > >to > > > >> shut the iwebmsg service down, which can take up to 20 minutes to > > > >accomplish. > > > >> > > > >> I've had to turn off accepting null senders just to grab my breath. > > Whats > > > >> the quick and dirty solution, some sort of hold action? is there a > way > > to > > > >> configure a declude test to action these messages? > > > >> > > > >> please forgive if this seems a stupid question, i'm pretty foggy > after > > a 4 > > > >> AM hard drive replacement on a different machine.... > > > >> > > > >> Thanks for any answers > > > >> > > > >> Royce Burnett > > > >> CICI > > > >> > > > >> --- > > > >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > >> > > > >> --- > > > >> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > > > >(http://www.declude.com)] > > > >> > > > >> --- > > > >> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. 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