I saw the EXACT same symptoms a few weeks ago. It seemed as though the server just stopped sending mail. I talked to the folks at IPSWITCH and they suggested the upgrade to 8.02 (I was on 7.15). Well, before I made that big of a step I basically ran through the same steps that Daniel did with little improvement. On Monday of this week I took the system up to 8.02. Now the spool file issue seems to have gone away. BUT... now I am seeing a memory "leakage". The server has 512mb in it. When we start the machine it settles down at roughly 165mb in use. By the end of the day we are up to over 700mb in use. No stopping/restarting of services will clear it up, it takes a reboot. It also seems that our old "friend" iwebmsg.exe likes even more processor than before. Overall the server is LESS stable than it was before the spool folder problem.
I hate this stuff. rusty -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Ivey Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:34 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [IMail Forum] Spool Getting Extremely Large I am currently experience a problem with my Imail Server that I noticed around 4:00 pm yesterday. I checked the server and noticed that the Spool directory contained 78,000 files and was 500 MB in size. No messages were going through, either to domains on the server or to domains on my Exchange server. Also, there were numerous messages in the overflow directory, when before there wasn't. My setup is that all incoming mail goes to the Imail server and then to the Exchange server if the domain isn't on the Imail server (so that the messages can be ran through Declude JunkMail). Since I first noticed the problem, I have done the following: (1) changed to a server NIC in the Imail System (2) upgraded to Imail version 8.02 from version 7.15 (3) changed it so that messages that were going to Imail and then Exchange, just go to Exchange. The server still seems a little sluggish in processing the messages, but the spool directory is down to about 500K, with nothing in the overflow directory. However, if I route the Exchange server traffic back through Imail, the spool gets extremely large again and messages appear to be backing up in the overflow directory. I have verified that the Exchange server is working properly. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would start all of a sudden? Any help would be appreciated. Daniel ======================= Daniel Ivey GCR Company / GCR Online Voice: 434 - 570 - 1765 Fax: 434 - 572 - 1981 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by WebSavannah.com's Virus Scanner] 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/
