thanks Len ... I am looking into your product right now! I am still working on sending all of that email. Jared Wray Corbis Corporation Lead Web Systems Administrator Address: www.corbis.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 425.401.4320 -----Original Message----- From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 11:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Stuck Emails 130,000 files in the spooldirectory >I was checking on the Knowledge base and found that .GSE (3,714 of them in >my spool folder) files are error messages from postmaster. http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19981110-DD08.htm "Files with .gse or .gsc extensions are messages from postmaster. These contain messages that could not be delivered with a statement about what failed." > When I clicked on >the files most of them showed this: > > >QD:\IMail\spool\D10f342f.GSE >Hdirectmail.mymailhost.com >WD:\IMail >S<> >R<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't see much "statement about what failed" in there. "statement about what failed" is your key to understanding What's Goin On. >does that mean that it is stuck in the que when this happens. "that could not be delivered" = "stuck", yes, let's assume that equation is true! vbg >We have been stuffing about 20,000 to 40,000 emails at once because of how >the user list >is going. What files should I put back into the Que to have them retry? I >was thinking that I only have to put back the .SMD files? I don't mess with the queue files directly, but in the Imail control panel there is a Queue tab where you have some buttons to play with for resending now rather than waiting for the next queue run (ie the "retry X times every Y minutes" thing). Do you see 3714 files in there? >Len, I pointed my DNS server to ns1.corbis.com so it wont route internally >first. Also .. thanks tons for all the help!!! I think I am almost getting >this under control! If you're really in the list business seriously, and these spikes of Imail list deliveries, failures, re-queing, etc, is driving you and your Imail box nutz with deterioration in the "user experience", then I suggest you add a P200 IMGate machine just as "output gateway" and have Imail "sent all mail through a gateway: ip address IMGate". This would allow Imail to dump all that list traffic+headaches at full speed (Imail doesn no DNS lookups, no queuing, no delivery failures) on IMGate, and then IMGate does the delivery and nasty business. Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
