[IMail Forum] Help Please

[Jim Smith]

Our system started having problems 6 days ago and continues as I write.  It is Imail 6.04 on Dual Pentium 750 with 512 Megs of Ram.  Our log files started running daily 175 to 200 Megs where normally they are only 25 to 30 Megs.  Running Qslice.exe on the desktop it shows normally 10 to 30 smtp sessions and now is running 150-300 sessions. Our spool directory is normally 250 to 300 files and now it is running from 3,500 to 7,000 files.  A snippet of the log is below and I have noticed thousands of lines mentioning excite.com?  I cannot tell from the logs what is going on.  Can someone look at the following and give me some advise?  We are sending out so much mail I even had to stop running Declude here because it creates dos sessions and the volume was sapping all the resources out of our machine.   Help Please.   --------------------------   08:27 13:12 SMTPD(FCDC0232) [198.3.99.117] C:\IMAIL\spool\D8d8f232.SMD 2999 08:27 13:12 SMTPD(571C024C) [198.3.99.11] C:\IMAIL\spool\D8d8f24c.SMD 3004 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 220 walker.excite.com ESMTP server (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) ready Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:12:31 -0700 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) >EHLO mail.cowtown.net 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000001C0) 250 Message received: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000001C0) rdeliver excite.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1265 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000001C0) >QUIT 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000578) Connect excite.com [198.3.99.212:25] (1) 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000590) 221 cheezer.excite.com ESMTP server closing connection 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000590) finished C:\IMAIL\spool\QHC257.tmp status=1 PASS xxxxxxxx 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250-walker.excite.com 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250-HELP 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250-XREMOTEQUEUE 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250-ETRN 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250-PIPELINING 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250-DSN 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250-8BITMIME 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250 SIZE 5242880 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) >MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000001C0) 221 mrpib.excite.com ESMTP server closing connection 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000001C0) finished C:\IMAIL\spool\QHC20F.tmp status=1 08:27 13:12 SMTPD(5072014C) [209.144.6.178] connect 198.3.99.45 port 49527 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(0000060C) processing C:\IMAIL\spool\Q8d8f232.SMD k 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) >RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08:27 13:12 328   LST imailsrv->[EMAIL PROTECTED] Illegal IMail List Server Command! 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000654) finished C:\IMAIL\spool\Q8d8f24c.SMD status=1 08:27 13:12 SMTPD(5072014C) [198.3.99.45] MAIL FROM:<> 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 250 Recipient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) >DATA 08:27 13:12 312   LST imailsrv->[EMAIL PROTECTED] Illegal IMail List Server Command! 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(0000060C) finished C:\IMAIL\spool\Q8d8f232.SMD status=1 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) Trying excite.com (0) 08:27 13:12 SMTPD(5072014C) [198.3.99.45] RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) 354 Ok Send data ending with <CRLF>.<CRLF> 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000618) >. 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) Connect excite.com [198.3.99.212:25] (1) 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(0000069C) processing C:\IMAIL\spool\QHC267.tmp 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000524) processing C:\IMAIL\spool\QHC269.tmp 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(0000069C) Trying excite.com (0) 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 220 athens.excite.com ESMTP server (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) ready Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:12:32 -0700 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) >EHLO mail.cowtown.net 08:27 13:12 SMTPD(5072014C) [198.3.99.45] C:\IMAIL\spool\D8d9014c.SMD 3018 USER jmellow DIR: C:\IMAIL\Users\jmellow MBX: C:\IMAIL\Users\jmellow\main.mbx UID: C:\IMAIL\Users\jmellow\main.uid 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000524) Trying excite.com (0) 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 250-athens.excite.com 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 250-HELP 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 250-XREMOTEQUEUE 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 250-ETRN 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 250-PIPELINING 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 250-DSN 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 250-8BITMIME 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) 250 SIZE 5242880 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(000004D4) >MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(0000069C) Connect excite.com [198.3.99.212:25] (1) 08:27 13:12 SMTP-(00000524) Connect excite.com [198.3.99.212:25] (1) PASS xxxxxxxx       _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Jim Smith - Cowtown Net 3044 Wichita Court Ft Worth, TX, 76140 Voc 817-293-5192 FAx 817-293-9076 Yahoo IM  jcs_cowtown _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/