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

Fri, 13 May 2005 15:23:16 -0700

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Thanx for the tip. I am actually using a program called cleaner.exe with a cleaner.ini file that I run every night. I think I will continue to use it so that all my log deletion etc can be found in one place.

 

Only problem with Cleaner is that the log file it produces is in German “Untersuche c:\imail\spool\virus\” (I think)

 

Thanx to all

 

 

     Goran Jovanovic

     The LAN Shoppe

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 6:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Graceful way to stop services

 

Exercise caution if you're using isplcln.exe with an old version of IMail.  See my posting in the web archive:

 

 

Andrew 8)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Graceful way to stop services

Goran,

I'm not 100% positive about this, but I don't think that it leaves garbage lying around if you stop the SMTP service, or if it does, it is normally minimal.  Stopping the Queue Manager might, but I generally don't do that.  It's not uncommon for me to stop my SMTP service and I don't have orphans lying around.  I do however gateway everything through different servers which stops the problem where zombies will leave incomplete E-mails all over the place, and IMail will even deliver some of them even though they don't even contain a full set of headers.  A lot of the trash that you might be seeing may very well be from zombies.  I seem to recall that the renaming of the SMD files to SM$ might indicate that they are missing a Q file or something and were found stranded in the spool, and might also be related to these bad sessions that timeout.  You can't do anything about the zombie/broken mailer issue unless you use a different piece of software as your gateway for incoming E-mail.

Anyway, every midnight I run the following command line tool from Ipswitch to clean out my spool of files older than 3 days:

    C:\IMail\ISplCln.exe -n 3

The "-n" switch targets non-logs.  An additional switch for "-l" will target the logs.  It doesn't traverse directories and it uses the Spool location stored in IMail.  My command will delete any E-mail file older than 3 days that is sitting in the spool.  I only retry E-mail for up to 18 hours, so practically speaking, I could get away with deleting after just 1 day and not affect my system, but I like to have a history of a few days there just in case something happened and I missed it.

    http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19990629-DM06.htm

Matt




Goran Jovanovic wrote:

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: [email protected]
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




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