>I'm not sure if we are having the exact same problem or if this is a
>variant.
It sounds like a very different problem, as you haven't mentioned the
server crashing.
>At least once a week our mail server seems to get "clogged" with e-mail. 20
>or 30 spool (*.vir) directories get created in imail\spool along with a
>matching batch of cmd processes running in task manager. If left alone
>things usually clear out in an hour or so but in the meanwhile e-mail grinds
>to a pathetic crawl. It's not unusual for it to take 30 or 40 minutes for
>an e-mail to process (incoming or outgoing).
Have you sorted the processes by CPU usage in the Task Manager to see if
there are other processes (besides Declude and the virus scanner) that are
taking up a lot of CPU time (which would slow down the scanning)?
Have you checked to see if there was a reason for an unusually high volume
of E-mail at the time?
>I always worry that during
>these bogged times viruses may be slipping through unnoticed.
It shouldn't. I believe that IMail will wait 2 hours before assuming that
a locked spool file is safe to deliver (which would allow it go go
unscanned), and I have never heard of it taking that long. And, with
Declude Queue running, if some of the files are in the
\IMail\spool\overflow directory (which they should be when you hit maximum
capacity), IMail can't deliver them, so they are safe.
-Scott
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