Agreed. I suggest something in mauve. -----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:55 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IMS Corruption...
It just needs more RAM. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:13 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: IMS Corruption... > > > It's a PII 450 with only 64 mb of RAM and a 2gb hard drive, > handling an organization of 750 mailboxes. > > Last month alone, it sent out 180k+ NDR's, blocked 67k+ spam > e-mails and delivered another 5,700+ spam e-mails...and > that's just the spam people reported. That doesn't count all > the legit traffic and the spam no one reports. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:23 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: IMS Corruption... > > > What kind of traffic do you get? We're handling 40,000+ > messages per day through our primary IMC, running on a 333MHz > box with 256MB RAM. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:46 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: IMS Corruption... > > > No...no NTFS permissions changes. I'm the only Exchange > admin in the company and the only person allowed to make > changes to the configuration of the machine. > > As far as the virii issue goes, I'd rather leave it the way > it is. We are blocking almost everything in the MBLD (Martin > Blackstone's List of Danger) and stop roughly 80-90% of our > virii at the Linux mail gateway before they even reach the > IMS. Besides, our mailbox servers are pretty beefy Compaq > servers that are well up to the task of virus scanning...good > suggestion though. > > I would LOVE to replace the IMS, but our contract here is in > a state of flux and we won't be getting any new servers in > and I'm not sure we have a workstation that could handle the load. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:35 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: IMS Corruption... > > > Any chance the NTFS permissions got changed on the > \exchsrvr\imcdata\ directories? Or that it's corruption of > the filesystem, which is reflecting as corruption of the IMC mailbox? > > Can you appropriate another machine (workstation even) to > build as a second IMC and take some, or all, of the load off > of your existing IMC? Maybe it's time to retire the very old > hardware. The vast majority of virii we get come from the > internet, so if you can upgrade your IMC box enough to run AV > on it, you'll save a lot of work on your mailbox servers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:49 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: IMS Corruption... > > > Actually, now that I stop and think about it, this seems even > stranger... > > Our IMS and Bridgehead machines run on very old hardware. > Because of that, we are not running AV on either machine, > only on the mailbox servers. > > So with no AV on the box trying to scan messages and > attachments as the come thru the IMS, why would they have > started seeing corruption all of a sudden? Would an increased > amount of Spam being processed by the IMS cause this on old > hardware? Our company has seen a ten-fold increase since > January, in the number of NDR's being processed by the IMS > and a five-fold increase in both the quantity of Spam blocked > at the IMS and the amount of Spam still getting through and > being reported. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:57 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: IMS Corruption... > > > Thats kind of an old build of NAVMSE - see if you can get > 2.18 from a recent Symantec AV distribution CD or from > Symantec support. > > 2.18 bld 76 is the most recent i've seen. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Blunt, James H (Jim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:13 PM > Subject: IMS Corruption... > > > > Exchange 5.5, SP4 > > Win2k, SP2 > > NAVME Version: 2.12 (Build 59) > > > > I have 6,949 of the following errors in my IMS Application > event log, > since > > 4/9/03: > > > > Event Type: Warning > > Event Source: MSExchangeIMC > > Event Category: Internal Processing > > Event ID: 3038 > > Date: 6/3/2003 > > Time: 8:43:03 AM > > User: N/A > > Computer: MAIL > > Description: > > An attempt to remove processed messages from the outbound > store queue > > has failed. The removal will be retried later. If the > messages are not > > removed before the service is shut down, the mail will be resent at > > service > startup > > causing duplicate mail. > > > > This "Q" article is the exact message that I am getting and looks to > > be a valid fix for my problem: Q296879 - XFOR: Sent > Messages Appear in > > the Internet Mail Service Queue > and > > Event ID 3038 Occurs > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;296879 > > > > My question is this...The article says that this behavior has been > observed > > when running CA's PantyShield, version 4.0.4. However, I am not, > > would > not > > nor would I ever consider running this product on my Exchange box. > So...can > > anyone tell me why this would happen? > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > ext_mode=&lang > =english > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > ext_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
