>>>> Our server currently processes about 160,000 pieces of mail a day.
How do you read your log files, they must be over 50 megs. Andrew P. Kaplan The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten...When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. -Sigurd Olson, The Singing Wilderness, 1956. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Keith > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Problem with spool not removeing GSE files > > > 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/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.393 / Virus Database: 223 - Release Date: 9/30/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.393 / Virus Database: 223 - Release Date: 9/30/02 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/
