This is because there's alot of dictionary spamming going on right now.
They send millions of emails to your server to every common username there
is hoping to get as many hits as possible. If your server isn't setup to
reject the incoming mail immediately due to bad username, it will accept it
and must process it. This is what's causing the buildup. To make things
worse, your smtp32.exe processes will build up too if it can't get through
all 10000+ messages within the queue timer setting. IPSwitch should put a
hard limit on the number of smtp32.exe processes that can be in memory at
once since this is the most common cause of server crashes for us. Wish
there was a easy solution for you, but I can't really think of one unless
you can filter the spam based on subject line or IP.
Steven Plautz
System Administrator of ISP Operations
Picus - Sybercom
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Santeramo
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 8:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] server keeps spooling
I can't seem to get the spool down on my new Imail
server. the spool is now over 11,000 messages. I am
using the imail server as a redirect gateway. the
queue timer is set to 30 minutes and the number of
retries is set to 20. the server is simply acting as
a relay host. any suggestions?
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