Re: [IMail Forum] Spool size

Dave Doherty Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:44:48 -0800

OK, you need to train it so it only accepts inbound mail for validaddresses. Are both of the servers Imail boxes?

----- Original Message -----From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:34 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spool size

Thanks Dave. It's a backup mail server, so I will look and see if thereare

other things that might be causing this.

Todd

(a newbie who is tired of taking baby steps - I want to run!!!)



-----Original Message-----
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[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 Isuspectyou have a bounce rule on a domain that is under attack. Check yourmessagerules to see if somebody has a nobody alias and a rule that bouncesanything


that doesn't match a name or two.

If you have that many files on a gateway, then the gateway is acceptingmail


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 gatewayand


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 inthere

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-----
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[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 alllog

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

can clean up files orphaned D* files without a matching Q file. Isthere

an

easy way to go through and do this without me having to look throughthem

all?

Thanks again,

Todd


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:00 AM
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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
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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 filetypes

vary, but does this suggest a problem somewhere?

Thanks,

Todd


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