mailscanner slowing the computer down

[Rishi Gangoly]

1. Sorry for sending the all the lines.
2. Yes it was a mail loop. How does one prevent it from happening in future?

Regards

Rishi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hoying" <andrewh at CQG.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: mailscanner slowing the computer down


> 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
> >