Excessive GSE files can indicate your server trying to bounce emails for a
myriad of reasons. Open a GSE file and examine its contents for clues.
Make sure you are not accepting for all and then bouncing AFTER verification of
valid address existence. You should be doing address verification at the
envelope, particularly at the gateway edge if you are gatewayed. If not, this
would cause a buildup of GSE files with your server trying to bounce, instead
of rejecting at the envelope. This sort of bounce will get you blacklisted.
Also- you should consider using a program to monitor spool directory file
count, such as Invariant's product or Servers Alive's file counter plug-in.
In the short term if it happens again, at the command prompt in the Imail
directory type: del *.gse to quickly remove excessive bounce files clogging
your queue. Bad advice, but works in a pinch.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kathy Lees
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Thousands of emails in spool
Thanks. We have had imail for years and this is a new problem. I see most of
the messages end in .gse I have never seen these before.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Doherty <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Thousands of emails in spool
If it doesn't work, check your DNS setup, ad be sure the DNS resolver you
entered into IMail setup is running. The normal recommendation is to install
the DNS server service on the IMail machine and point IMail to 127.0.0.1. If
that's how you're set up, check that the service is running and you can resolve
outside addresses on the machine.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kathy <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lees
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Thousands of emails in spool
Never mind. I got it restarted. I'll see if it works.
----- Original Message -----
From: Grant <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Griffith
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:11 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Thousands of emails in spool
We had this issue last week while I was on vacation and it was the queue
manager crashing... Probably a bad message in the queue. Set the queue
manager to restart on failure and you should be good. Or search and find the
bad message...
Thanks,
Grant Griffith
Web Application Developer
Enhanced Telecommunications
http://www.etczone.com
812-932-1000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathy Lees
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Thousands of emails in spool
I noticed over the weekend, little emails coming through. In looking in the
spool file, we have tens of thousands of emails in the spool folder. Why aren't
they processing? I have restarted the Declude Proc service, and nothing has
changed.
