We are new to Declude (running Imail 7.13 w/Declude 1.60) and wanted to see what you mean by .gse files. I take it these are undelieverable emails that cannot get bounced to the sender and therefor need to die via a badmail timeout. Thanks for the info.
Keith J -----Original Message----- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:afyodorov@;innerhost.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Problem with spool not removeing GSE files Hey I am fed up with the GSE's too. I wish there would be a separate processing policy for them. Here is something interesting. Some of our Imail servers are set up to use gateway instead of delivering outgoing mail on their own. Even with the gateway, there is a good number of GSE files in the queue. Do the GSEs have a lower processing priority? -----Original Message----- From: E Perrine [mailto:eperrine@;nettally.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ 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/
