David,
Sorry, I missed that, but thought others had answered. And in checking
again, it appears Len did. But here is more!
No, if only a D file remains (the Q file is gone because IMail has made all
possible attempts to deliver), then you can just delete the old D file.
However, there are 'clues' to possible deliver problems.
They 'hang out' because that is what IMail does when it cannot deliver to
all addressees or return the message to the sender, notifying the sender of
the delivery problems. IMail leaves the D file as something the postmaster
can look at to see what happened. Part of IMail's 'never losing a message'
is that those which are not deliverable or returnable are not deleted, but
left for the system admin, in \spool as these 'unconnected' D files.
I do recommend that one look them over, as they can tell you if you got hit
by spam, or have a user who has an incorrect email address and things of
that nature. If you have no curiosity or just don't care, then just delete
them. I would do that if it were just one or 2 (a day), but if I see a bunch
with similiar dates/times, that could mean something important.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Redundant .SMD files?
> Hi Daniel,
>
> At 09:18 AM 11/15/2000 -0500, Daniel Donnelly wrote:
> >Message files (some with other extensions, too) can remain when IMail
cannot
> >deliver to all addresses and cannot return that info to the sender. Bet
if
> >you look more closely, you might find a bad senders address in some of
them.
> >One could also have T*.* files if the SMTP service (or the system) is
shut
> >down when the message is coming in. Those will get recreated when the
> >sending server attempts another delivery.
> You didn't answer Chris's main question which was:
>
> > > Why are they hanging about, and if I delete them, will the sky fall?
> So, if he deletes them -- will the sky fall? :) Is there a problem with
> removing superfluous SMD files that are older than X days?
>
> ...David
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