>How often should isplcln.exe be used

it depends on how quickly old junk builds up in your spool directory

>  and how does it effect the
>overall performance is webmessaging and the product itself.

a huge spool directory, 1000's or 10's of 1000's of files, will slow 
horribly file searching of queue processing.   Efficient queue processing 
is the foundation of a mail server's performance.

Note that ispclean does not perform the other critical filesystem 
maintenance task of defragging.   ispclean followed by full defragging is 
the best combo. Washboard abs and buns of steel.

You should also have the spool directory in its own dedicated partition, 
even on its own dedicated disk.

Just keeping the /spool directory clean does nothing to fight the defrag 
problem.  And the defrag problem is worsened, both in operation and in 
maitenance, if the spool directory is buried in a 10 gb partion with 100k 
other dir's and files.

Ignore the above if you have 200 accounts and 1000 msgs/day.

Len

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