Glad to hear you figured it out, but it reminds me of an incident I had here one time. I was running AIMS (before I discovered SIMS) on a Quadra 650 with OS 7.6 (not a screamer, but very serviceable). One morning, I came in and the whole thing was just CRAWLING... no one could get mail... if you tried to connect, your machine just waited and waited and finally timed out. I started poking around checking various settings. Finally, I stumbled upon a HUGE outbound SMTP file. A little detective work traced it back to the sending machine. Turns out one of the assistants in that particular department was using his manager's computer (this department has only one computer... only for the supervisor, really) to send a copy of Photoshop (THE WHOLE FREAKIN INSTALLER CD!!!) to a friend... UNCOMPRESSED!!!!!
I delivered a *stern* lecture on software piracy and proper use of company e-mail. The guy still works for us, but he hasn't tried that trick again. As I always say, I'd have a perfect network if it weren't for the stinkin' users! Happy Friday! -Doug Wasn't it "laurent pladys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who once said... >From: "laurent pladys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re(2): very long ping >Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:51:53 +0200 > > >> It could also be some OS problem that has been coming for some time >>that may well now be affecting applications as well. >> Just out of interest, do your SIMS logs show anything holding a >>connection for any period longer than normal but doing no actual mail >>activity? When I was running SIMS, I had a few odd things like that, >>especially when Nimda first appeared. > >Thanks for the advice, I finally understood what was going on. 2 >mailboxes that were checked from the same computer had never been emptied >and each was more than 100 Mb big. That's why SIMS was choking. I moved >the mail server from an old AWS 7250 to a G4 450 and it was still >hanging. I then "trimmed" the mailboxes to more reasonnable size (about >15 Mb) and voila it worked again. >I also noticed that the very same users were sending mails between 20 and >75 Mb ... >I have told them that FTP exists ! > >So my problem wasn't really SIMS fault, it was a reading 2 100Mb text >files every 2 or 3 minutes on a PPC 601 at 120 Mhz on Mac OS 8.6 isn't >really a good idea ... >I should have turned on the limit mailbox size option >;-) > >Laurent. ================================================ | Doug Starkey | | Network Administrator | | Pecan Deluxe Candy Company | | 2570 Lone Star Drive | | Dallas, TX 75212-6308 | | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | voice: 214-631-3669 Ext. 108 | | fax: 214-631-5833 | ================================================ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
