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Massive amounts of msgs in spool

caseyj1231
Ok, so I had somehow setup an open relay.. I narrowed it down, and got the open relay fixed, however my Spool is totally full with about 100000 messages.. all spam.. and when i clear them out, it rebuilds to another 50000 mesages.. none of my machines are infected, and the exchange server's queue is clear.. can anyone help?? how do I stop this? And if I try to telnet to the IP's i have on port 25, they don't answer.. the CPU is maxed out, (I have 2 xeon 2.5ghz processors, and 2.5gb of ram).. 

My system's setup right now is the following:

static IP forwarded to exchange mail server thru astaro.  smtp proxy is turned on, but even with it off it still doesnt help.. smtp proxy is set to only allow my upstream mail servers access on port 25 as well as the packet forwarding.


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    You don't say what the messages are, but I'm going to guess they are NDRs.  You can "Cancel" these by choosing to "Bounce" them instead of selecting "Delete" when you clear out the queue.

    Did that work?

    Cheers - Bob
     
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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson
    Actually I ended up reformatting and rebuilding the whole box  because it kept increasing in the thousands.. now its working fine with the correct permissions, etc.

    Thanks!
  • 0 in reply to caseyj1231
    You didn't say if you tried the 'Bounce' trick.

    For future readers, I think you could have done a simple Factory Reset and accomplished the same thing.

    Cheers - Bob
     
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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson
    Yes, I did try the bounce trick however for several hundred thousand emails to go 50 per page was not my idea of a good time.

    The factory reset did not dump all of the files in the spool, though.  Believe me, I tried that.  That's why I ended up reformatting and starting from square 1.
  • 0 in reply to caseyj1231
    That makes sense, Casey.  I had expected that there would be a global cleanup option for that.  There wasn't one, so I've suggested it.

    I'm also surprised that a factory reset didn't resolve this.

    Finally, can anyone explain why a wipe/reinstall worked when global delete failed?  Does the Astaro send a message somewhere when it deletes something from the queue?

    Thanks - Bob
     
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  • 0 in reply to caseyj1231
    That makes sense, Casey.  I had expected that there would be a global cleanup option for that.  There wasn't one, so I've suggested it.

    I'm also surprised that a factory reset didn't resolve this.

    Finally, can anyone explain why a wipe/reinstall worked when global delete failed?  Does the Astaro send a message somewhere when it deletes something from the queue?

    Thanks - Bob
     
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