Darin, Ever since I started working out of a home office I do forget about the holidays!
Well, the "good news" is that I've made some progress in understanding the problem. As long as I don't specify a "HOLD" action (EG. WEIGHT30 HOLD %DATE%) and instead run with (WEIGHT30 SUBJECT [SPAM]) then Declude will at least process MOST of the incoming email. When I tell Declude to hold email above a certain weight, it falls all over itself with problems. I'm seeing messages in the logs about attempts to move non-existent files. I see paths for these files having spaces or double slashes in the path names which are obvious programming errors. I'm half tempted to edit the Declude.exe file with a hex editor and fix the path problems myself. But there are some logic problems too so there is no point. I hate the thought of running for 3 days not being able to block ANY spam at all. But what are you going to do? At least I can tag the majority of the spam. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 8:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude bugs and problems with smartermail > > Hi Dave, > > Probably not... Monday's Labor Day. Easy to forget those little things > called holidays, isn't it? <grin> > > Darin. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Beckstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 7:42 PM > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude bugs and problems with smartermail > > > Gary, > > Yeah, that sounds exactly like what is happening and I see messages in the > log, as well, that supports what you're saying. > > Hopefully Declude support will be around on Monday and maybe we can work > on > getting that one solved. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Steiner > > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 5:51 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude bugs and problems with > smartermail > > > > Regarding #5. I've run into spam that was sent to multiple addresses on > > the server, and the spam was processed by Declude (it's listed in the > log > > files), but somehow when this spam is then moved to the hold directory > it > > gets confused and somehow loses track of the file, and the file doesn't > > end up in the hold directory (you see an error message about this in the > > log file). It gets delivered, but without any Declude processing > messages > > in the header. > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > > From: "Dave Beckstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 1:01 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude bugs and problems with > smartermail > > > > > > I've found a few Declude bugs and other problems when running in the > > > smartermail environment. > > > > > > 1) Declude leaves directories with names such as 6432144091.vir in the > > > SPOOL/PROC overflow directory and it NEVER goes back and removes these > > > directories or cleans them up. I have to manually delete the .vir > > > directories. > > > > > > 2) Orphaned files. I have found files in the SPOOL/PROC directory > where > > the > > > .EML extension has been renamed to .EM$ and there is no matching .HDR > > file. > > > These stay until I delete the orphans. I currently have a file in my > > SPOOL > > > directory called X6432144091.EML with no matching .HDR file - which > > means > > > its an orphan file too. > > > > > > 3) The PROC overflow directory is being populated with files even when > > the > > > server is under very low utilization. This, in my opinion, portends > > major > > > performance problems ahead of us when the server is under a high load. > > I > > > don't see any tuning parameters available which allow me to tweak > under > > what > > > circumstances the PROC directory is utilized. I have a dual processor > > > server with 2 gig of RAM on it and I should not be forced to the same > > > limitations as someone with a single processor server. This process > > needs > > > to be tunable. > > > > > > 4) This morning I had about 100 files in the SPOOL/PROC directory. I > > had to > > > manually copy them to the SPOOL directory for processing. Once I > moved > > > them, the new files being placed into the PROC directory would > > automatically > > > move back to the SPOOL directory for processing. So it appears that > > there > > > is some situation where Declude forgets about some files in the > > SPOOL/PROC > > > directory and never goes back and moves them back to the SPOOL. I can > > set > > > up a script to do this (and delete the .vir folders too) every 15 > > minutes > > > but I shouldn't have to do that. > > > > > > 5) This morning I had 45 spam emails in my in-box that had no header > > records > > > indicating that they were ever processed by Declude. Apparently there > > is > > > some situation where Declude doesn't process messages. I haven't yet > > > figured out how or why this may be happening. I'll do more research > to > > see > > > what I can find. > > > > > > I am hoping that support will get with me ASAP and that together we > can > > > identify the cause of these problems and make some enhancements to > > Declude > > > which will make it more smartemail friendly. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > > > > > > --- > > > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > > > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > > > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > > > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > > --- > > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > > > --- > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > > > --- > > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". 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