>Our mail server recently had a tussle with another list server. Several
>hundred megabytes of messages and logs later, they won and we had to reboot
>our server.
Ouch; sorry to hear about that.
>Which leads to the question, what happens to messages in process or
>Junkmail / Virus scanning during a reboot. There are legitimate-looking
>message files in the spool directory dated at the time of the reboot. Does
>everything either get resent, or or reprocessed automatically?
Everything should take care of itself after a reboot, although any E-mail
that Declude was in the process of scanning will not get scanned.
During the time that Declude is scanning an E-mail, it is locked using
IMail's file locking mechanism (renaming the first character to a "_" and
the first character of the extension to "~"). The only problem is that
after a reboot, the file is still locked. However, IMail will
automatically unlock locked files after 2 hours, assuming that there was a
problem. Then, they will be in the queue ready to go out on the next queue
run. You could speed this up by manually unlocking the files (renaming
them back to their original form), but it's safer just to let IMail do its
thing.
It's likely that Declude Virus would leave behind a temporary directory
(one with a ".vir" extension); it's safe to delete those after a
reboot. There's a slight chance that Declude JunkMail mail leave behind a
file with an extension ending in "$" (IE D1234567.SM$), in which case the
original E-mail may be truncated. That would only happen if the reboot
occurred while Declude JunkMail was altering the message (such as adding a
header).
-Scott
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