Hi, A customer of mine reported, that his IMail servers does not respond and/or is slow. The spool directory was full up with thousands of files. After checking the log files, the mistake was found.
what happened? A user added a forward file to an different domain/account on the same server. On the other account, an different forward file was installed bouncing back the mail to the first account on the other domain. He also installed a vacation message. He sent a mail to somebody. Unfortunately this account reached his disk space limit and bounced a message back. This was the beginning of a long, very long ping-pong game :-( IMail was quite busy with playing around. 150'000 messages were generated in no time. After stopping all services, removing the forward files and cleaning up the spool directory, the server was fixed. Does anybody know, if Guantanamo Bay is ready to book a ticket for a very stupid IMail user? -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 1 391 30 00 Fax: +41 1 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer -------------------------------------------- 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/
