Brad,
You are probably being used as a relay for spam. Go to the SMTP security
tab in 'Mail relay options' set 'relay for addresses' or 'no relay' and
restart your smtp service. You'll probably need to go in and delete all
those 175,000 files but I am less sure about this.
HTH,
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Bond, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:15 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Spool Directory
>hi everyone i've got a question:
> I deleted all the items in the spool directory last nite, was
>looking around in knowledge base and thought it might stop some of my
>lockups and it did however now not 8hrs. later i have 88MB of stuff in
>the folder and explorer won't open it there is some 175,000 files in
>there. Why i am i getting those and why are the building up so fast? I
>had to leave my mail server off line for a while yesterday do to some
>server problems but now its all fixed. Are theese files just like email
>in que? If anyone has any info please let me know.
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Brad Bond
>FasTraxs Internet Services
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