This error can be caused by the file being locked as everyone is talking about or the file being corrupted itself...Are messages getting to the root-bulk.mbx after these errors? If not I would say the file is corrupted. Is this a regular occurrence or a hit-and-miss type thing?
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "L. Kaminski - MDS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:03 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Delivery failed 10 attempts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks Sandy. I was cleaning it up only once a day at 3am, but the errors > occur throughout the day. > > Has anyone else seen anything like this? > > Lukasz > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:36 AM > To: L. Kaminski - MDS > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Delivery failed 10 attempts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Lately, some spam messages have been failing delivery to root-bulk > > (log snippet and message header below). Could this occur when while > > the spam message arrives another process is deleting old root-bulk > > messages using immsgexp.exe thus locking the file? > > It sure could, but not 10 times (unless you're constantly aging out a > huge file). > > > If this is in fact the cause, can someone recommend another way of > > maintaining the root-bulk folder? > > Rename it nightly to YYYYMMDD.MBX and prune from there accordingly. > It's never good to run cleanup on "archive"-sized MBX files while > they're in production. > > --Sandy > > > ------------------------------------ > Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > Broadleaf Systems, a division of > Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! > > http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release > / > > Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange Addresses into IMail Aliases! > > http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa > d/release/ > > > 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/
