With the advent of faster hardware it was possible for more than one message to get the same spool file name. This has been fixed in V7. I would suggest you upgrade and this problem should go away. Although another way I have seen this happen is when you are running VERY low on disk space on the partition where your IMail\Spool directory resides. More likely the first scenario
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kayma, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 10:41 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] email routing to wrong user? > I am running iMail 6.06 on a Win 2000 Adv Server. I am fairly new in this > position, and I understand the installation was customized. > > I have 1000+ virtual hosts, with about 15,000+ end-users. One user on one > domain has claimed he has received 30+ emails addressed for another user and > domain on the same server (2 totally different domains, and the end-users > claim they have never e-mailed each other before.) > > -userA@domainA says he received userB@domainB 's email one day. He > deleted all the mail, but sent notification to the other user. Thus, I have > nothing to go on but their word. > > The only link I can find between the two is they reside on the same server. > > Looking through the logs for the day in question, I see mail being retrieved > for both users. I did notice that userB@domainB seemed to send out a few > emails to multiple recipients, and some of those recipients forwarded mail > to another account, but I could not find a connection from any forwarded > account to userA. > > There are no forwards for the accounts in question, and there are no aliases > set up either. The DB is an external SQL DB, and I have checked the table > names each writes to. > > I don't see how this can be possible without some type of forwarding..has > anyone else ever run across anything like this before? > > Thanks, > > > Bill Kayma > Systems Engineer > Cypress Communications, Inc. > Helpdesk: 888.367.5669 > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
