Thanks Dave. It's a backup mail server, so I will look and see if there are other things that might be causing this.
Todd (a newbie who is tired of taking baby steps - I want to run!!!) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spool size I use a VBS script that calls a zipper utiliity. It's really easyonce you have the utility. he one I use is ancient and hasn't been supported for years. But there's lots of shareware out there and maybe even some freeware. Is this a mailbox server or a gateway? If you have that many files building up on a mailbox server, then I suspect you have a bounce rule on a domain that is under attack. Check your message rules to see if somebody has a nobody alias and a rule that bounces anything that doesn't match a name or two. If you have that many files on a gateway, then the gateway is accepting mail that is unacceptable to the mailbox server. The best way to fix this is to export the acceptable addresses from your mailbox server to your gateway and set up the gateway to accept mail only for those addresses. he the gateway can issue 550 errors instead of bounce messages. It will save a lot on bandwidth also. -d ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:59 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spool size > Thanks Dave. I set up the isplcln utility just a little bit ago. > However, > a lot of those .gse files were from today! So even if I had it set up on > a > daily basis, there are still several thousand postmaster messages in there > from today that wouldn't get deleted until tomorrow. If that's not a > problem then I'm set. > > Do you just archive your log files manually, or do you have a script that > you use? > > Todd > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spool size > > You can download the Imail spool cleaner utility from their website. Call > it nightly as follows: > > isplcln -n 1 -l 5 > > -n refers to the age of the files to delete. This applies to all but log > files. > -l refers to the age of the log files to delete. > > In both cases, the number says how old they fiels should be days. > > So my command line deletes all surplus files over one day old, and all log > fuiles over 5 days old. I zip my log files and place them in an archive > directory anyway, so the log part is pretty much immaterial on my system. > > -d > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:28 PM > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spool size > > >> Going through the spool folder I found that there were 22,000 ".gse" >> files >> (which I see are generated by the postmaster). I looked at several of >> them >> and they were basically bounces from email addresses that didn't exist. >> Is >> there a reason to keep these (my gut says no). Also, Darin mentioned >> that > >> I >> can clean up files orphaned D* files without a matching Q file. Is there >> an >> easy way to go through and do this without me having to look through them >> all? >> >> Thanks again, >> >> Todd >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrell >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:00 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spool size >> >> Yes, this indicates a problem. We run about 125-150K messages a day >> (96-98%) filtered out by Declude, but in general we only have approx 300 >> or >> so files in the spool. I have my QueueMon settings to alert us when it >> gets >> >> over 500. >> >> You need to start looking at those files and figure out what is wrong. >> >> Darrell >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for utilities for Declude And >> Imail. IMail/Declude Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI integration, >> MRTG >> >> Integration, and Log Parsers. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:13 AM >> Subject: [IMail Forum] Spool size >> >> >>> How many files are too many in the spool? Our backup mail server's >>> spool >>> seems to grow by the day, and is currently at 56K files. The file types >>> vary, but does this suggest a problem somewhere? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Todd >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> Todd Richards >>> National Network, Inc. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> 402.778.7903 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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/ >> >> 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/ > > 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/ 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/
