Although I've tried the KB and the forum archives, I was not smart enough to find a reference to a log problem we've been having. We have an IMail 7.06 install; and I am, admittedly, a newbie where IMail is concerned.

Each time IMail receives a message for an invalid user, something spawns a process that results in 512 "invalid user" error messages in which the original sender is both sender and recipient. The error message expected as a result of the original "invalid" recipient is written also. It's always 1+512. If there are three invalid recipients on a multiple addressee message, then it's 3+1536, etc. The condition exists despite stopping/starting services, reboots, etc.

I'm experiencing about 10K multi-line errors per hour. The log files,of course, are all but unmanageable. Following is an extract from the sys file. I have captured the traffic to/from the mail host and verified that the mail host only receives the single, original email. Virus scans of the mail host reveal nothing.

Direct replies are more than welcome. I don't wish my inexperience to adversely affect the forum. Thanks in advance for any suggestions/insight. Apologies if the solution is obvious to everyone but me.

Jack

03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C10124) [168.16.xxx.xx] connect 168.16.xxx.xx port 2234
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C10124) [168.16.xxx.xx] HELO mail...
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C10124) [168.16.xxx.xx] mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C10124) [168.16.xxx.xx] RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C10124) [168.16.xxx.xx] ERR mail... invalid user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(93F000F2) [168.16.xxx.xx] connect 168.16.xxx.xx port 2235
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(93F000F2) [168.16.xxx.xx] HELO mail...
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(93F000F2) [168.16.xxx.xx] mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(93F000F2) [168.16.xxx.xx] RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(93F000F2) [168.16.xxx.xx] ERR mail... invalid user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C20124) [168.16.xxx.xx] connect 168.16.xxx.xx port 2236
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C20124) [168.16.xxx.xx] HELO mail...
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C20124) [168.16.xxx.xx] mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C20124) [168.16.xxx.xx] RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03:03 00:00 SMTPD(B7C20124) [168.16.xxx.xx] ERR mail... invalid user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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