Since the Queue tool shows only 3, that means there are 3 of the *.smd files
that begin with Q*.smd. Find the 3 D*.smd. where * in the Q matches * in the
D. Those are email that IMail has to process. If the files are T*.smd, then
they are 'aborted' emails (normally this is a temporary file that becomes
the D file when message is received or deleted if connection terminated
prematurely). So any T*.SMD files can be deleted, IMail will not use them
(but they can tell you where the message was coming from and to). Any D
files that do not have a matching Q file are messages that IMail could not
deliver or return. Look at them too, to see who the sender/recipient is.
Delete when no longer needed.
You might want to move them all to another location or rename the \spool dir
and make a new one, moving to it, only the current days log files and the
Q/D pairs. Might be a good idea to stop SMTP service, when doing this and
start back up when done.
tmp files may come from Web MSG. Maybe one of your web users, tried to sent
that big file to lots of people?? I'd just delete it after performing the
above stuff (you might find that it was an attachment [awful big!!!], when
you look at the lone D*.SMD files).
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rasmus Aaen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:55 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Huge .tmp file in spool dir
> Hi all,
>
> My mailserver crashed last night because it ran out of disk space. It
> normally has about 3 GB of free space. When I checked the spool dir, there
> was a file called broad44.tmp taking up more than 2.5 GB, and 34,000+ .SMD
> files.
> Two days ago there was about 20 files in the spool dir.
>
> The Imail Administrator "View Queue" said that there was 3 items in the
> queue.....
>
> I've been through the logfiles for the last few days, and I can't see
> anything out of the ordinary. The log for last night is about 25% larger
> than normal, mainly because our monitor software tried to send alert mails
> because the mailserver was failing. But it didn't send no where near the
> 34,000 mails (I think it send about 6-700 during the night).
>
> Does anybody have an idea about what went wrong......
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rasmus Aaen
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