RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Graceful way to stop services

[Colbeck, Andrew]

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... which is why I tell my stateful firewall instead.  Essentially, I disable the inbound SMTP rule, and the stateful inspection does not interfere with the current transactions, just blocks new connections.   Then I can do whatever maintenance was required, including graceful shutdowns.  New connections are blocked, and the sending server retries.  Typically, spammers don't, so there is no tidal wave of backlogged spam that comes in with the ham once the firewall allows inbound SMTP again.   On another note, if you stop IMail and get a broken connection, the sending server knows that the connection was broken, so the message will be re-sent once you allow mail in again.  The orphaned files do not mean that your client has missed a message.   Andrew 8) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goran Jovanovic Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:36 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Graceful way to stop services But stopping the SMTP service creates the incomplete T and D files right?   So there is no way to tell IMail to do not accept any more connections and finish what you are doing so that I can stop the process without getting the incomplete files?   I know that the sending server will retry the mail again so I am not really worried about losing mail I was just trying to prevent clutter in the spool directory. In any case I have a cleanup routing that deletes old T, D and Q files.          Goran Jovanovic      The LAN Shoppe     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 5:09 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Graceful way to stop services   You should only need to stop the SMTP service and then wait about 10 seconds. Matt Goran Jovanovic wrote: Hi,   What is the most graceful way to stop mail processing on an IMail/Declude process?   At present when I have to stop the services I stop the SMTP service then the Queue Manager Service, watch task manager for all the Declude processes to stop.   Will this method leave T*.SMD files or incomplete D*.SMD files? I think it does.             Goran Jovanovic      The LAN Shoppe -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================