That would be great! We do see a huge amount of email come into our server and the amount of Spam is staggering.
I would be very appreciative of your help. Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "E Perrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Problem with spool not removeing GSE files > Keith --- > > Our server currently processes about 160,000 pieces of mail a day. > The .gse files were becoming a problem for us as there were about > 100 being generated every three minutes or so with virtually all > being from spam sources with invalid addresses. This equates to > 2,000 an hour, or 48,000 each day. Further, with each pending > outbound message being queued and tried six times, this works out > to something like 300,000 SMTP processes a day. Not a good thing. > > Excessive numbers of .gse files can cause all sorts of problems. By > making the queue so large, they slow down 'normal' Imail queue runs > since there are so many messages to process and the bogus messages > often take longer than normal to fail (since they wait for servers > to answer that often don't exist). When you added Declude (with the > more intelligent, multiple SMTP queuing) it is trying to work the > queue faster by launching more SMTP processes with the resulting > increase in load on your machine. (At least, that's my best guess). > > One of my staff members wrote a routine in Visual Basic which runs > once every five minutes, looking for .gse files which are more than > three minutes old. By doing this we allow all bounce messages to be > tried once (so valid bounces are usually delivered) but the others > are killed before they get tried over and over and over again. (Our > queue timer is set for 10 minutes on the gateway server.) > > We are revising the script to be a little more intelligent so that > it also takes care of D... and T... pairs that have been orphaned > by a failed connection and cleans them up as well. This makes it a > little easier for us to look at the spool file and see if there is > anything unpleasant going on. > > Once we get the revised version of the script completed and tested, > I will post it here for anyone that is interested. > > --- Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Problem with spool not removeing GSE files > > We are running Imail 6.06 and the newest version of Declude. I have > several > companies including a few local Governments that use ETRN on our system > and > they do not collect email on the weekends. I have my queue set to hold > email > for 10 tries and 3000. After I installed declude I found that the GSE > files > are not being removed from the spool and the folder will literaly have > over > 50,000 or more GSE files in it in just 24 hours. I have also found the > server to be running at 100% cpu and it is SMTP32.exe proccesses that > are > takeing up the power. > > What if anything can I do to eliminate the GSE files properly and how > can I > keep the cpu from molestation by the SMPT32 proccess? > > Keith > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
