> I deleted all the items in the spool directory last nite,...
If you deleted *all* the items in there, then you probably deleted some legitimate
mail (any mail waiting to be delivered) and all your log files...
> ... 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?
There are tons of possible reasons: Someone hijacked your mail server and is sending
spam, you have a customer sending out tons of E-mail, you have a mail loop, etc.
The good news is that it's easy to find out. Move those files out of there into a
temporary directory, and look at them to see what is in them. For example, if they
all have the subject "YOU TOO CAN MAKE $5,000 A MONTH", you can probably guess what
happened.
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-Scott
Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com
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