> I am running IMail 6.05 on a W2K server and have been noticing that
about every 4
> days the spool size gets huge (18+ Megs) with mail that has gone
undelivered. Typically
> I see about 40 mail messages per day with the extensions of: .smd, .gse
and .~md that
> have not been delivered and it grows each day.
The .GSE files are "bounce" messages that get generated when an E-mail is
not deliverable. Those are not sent immediately, so they may stick around
for about 20 minutes or so before delivery is attempted.
The .SMD files are standard E-mails that have been received. You can check
the Q*.SMD files to see who the sender/recipient is (you can type 'find "@"
Q*.SMD' to quickly and easily see the sender/recipient, which can track
down many types of problems). That will also show you if these are
incoming or outgoing E-mails.
The files ending in ~MD are locked files, and that usually means that IMail
is in the process of delivery the file, but also in your case can mean that
Declude is scanning the E-mail. If any file beginning with an underscore
("_") and an extension beginning with "~" is older than 2 hours, there may
be a problem with it.
You can use the web messaging to view the spool directory, which also shows
you how many attempts IMail has tried to deliver the message.
Another thing that you can do is look in the SMTP log files to see what has
happened with those files. Just search on the file name minus the first
character and extension (for example, if the file is Q1234567.SMD, search
for 1234567).
Feel free to E-mail me your Declude.log file, and I can check in there to
make sure that there aren't any problems there.
-Scott
Declude: Anti-spam and Anti-virus solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com
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