mailscanner slowing the computer down

[Andrew Hoying]

This is the same thing that happened to me last month. Check for a mail loop
with bouncing messages between one of our e-mail recipients and some off
site address.

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:59 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: mailscanner slowing the computer down
>
>
> At 15:27 15/05/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I just noticed my server became very slow and noticed the number of files
> >create in /var/spool/mailscanner/incoming was huge.
> >
> >Hers is the output of find /var/spool/mailscanner/incoming
> >
> ><SNIP>
>
> Did we really all need to see *all* of that? A few sample lines
> and a rough
> total would have done...
>
> >Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
> >What am I doing wrong?
> >Is there somehting to prevent this?
>
> Looks like you have a message with a huge number of attachments.
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
>