Very true...especially when an occasional spam blaster throws a bunch at you and hangs up before finishing. I can't for the life of me think of why they would do that ;^P
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Imail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] T and D files piling up Roger that last Darin. Sometimes the SMTP "conversation" will never finish though. All email is not legitimate and not all email gets delivered intact what ever the email software. We handle multiple programs in Linux and Windows. At 11:42 AM 8/25/2005, you wrote: >Ok, how about incomplete instead of orphaned? > >Regardless of what we want to call them, The T files are files for which the >SMTP conversation has not yet finished. > >Darin. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Marc Funaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:09 PM >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] T and D files piling up > > > > > "Yeah, that's great, except that would be killing legit > > mail, and keep everyone pissed off at me because > > they're not getting all their mail." > > > > Last time I talked to Imail tech I was told that the T > > files that hang around that long are orphaned anyway > > and will never become Q files. But then what do I know. > >"orphaned" should never be a term used by an email system... The messages >should go SOMEWHERE. I've never seen any other mail system handle messages >in such a way as to "orphan" them and just leave them lying around... It's a >lame way to deal with such messages, but that's really IPSwitch's fault. >It's yet another reason why we need to get away from iMail. Anyway, as I've >tried to say, these messages are legit and should not be "hanging around" at >all. > >If I told a tech that these legitimate messages are in the queue, that >should be deliverable according to the contents of the files I see sitting >around, I wonder if he'd still slap a blatantly generic, presumptuous label >of "orphaned" on them. If so, then the whole flippin' system is invalid as >far as I'm concerned. These messages SHOULD be going somewhere, and I can >verify their validity, or I too would call them orphaned. I wonder if the T >files remain, un-renamed to Q files, because the message is only partially >received or something? > > > > > Why don't you try calling Imail, if you have a > > maintenance agreement. > > > >The maintenance agreement was a joke... The promise of 'upgrades' was lame, >and with the latest nonsense about ICS I will never again lock myself into a >long term relationship with this company. This list was always more helpful >and knowledgeable than the people I talked to at dIPSwitch, if I could ever >reach them at all. So no, I don't have a maintenance agreement. > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses courtesy of Netslyder, >Inc.(http://www.netslyder.net)] > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.15/81 - Release Date: 8/24/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.15/81 - Release Date: 8/24/2005 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses courtesy of Netslyder, Inc.(http://www.netslyder.net)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
