Lyle:

 

So if I base the queue count by adding up the files that match “/var/surgemail/work/*/*.idx” while I be missing something?

 

Frank

 

From: Lyle Giese [mailto:lyle@lcrcomputer.info]
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:49 AM
To: surgemail-list@netwinsite.com
Subject: Re: [SurgeMail List] re: Reload work directory

 

I grab the output of

tellmail status

and grab the numbers on the lines 'In Memory que' and 'On Disk que', add them to together and send alerts based on a threshold for that number that works for my server.

I mentioned the other day that an account was hacked and was used to send alot of spam.  This method was my first alert to the problem.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.

On 08/09/13 22:29, Frank Bulk wrote:

Stephan:

 

You may want to have something watch your queues a bit more closely if systems currently allow up to 200K messages to build up.  At our site we consider it a “bad day” if more than a few hundred spam messages are queued/delayed for delivery.

 

Frank

 

From: surgemail-support [mailto:surgemail-support@netwinsite.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 5:10 PM
To: surgemail-list@netwinsite.com
Subject: [SurgeMail List] re: Reload work directory

 

I think it will probably find them eventually anyway, but to be sure:

 

Stop surgemail

delete del.noidx

And restart, that should force it to recheck.

 

If it still fails, make sure you placed them in the right matching work sub folder that they came from.

 

    ChrisP.

 

Hi,

 

somebody got hold of a mail account and password and used our server to

relay spam.

 

After stopping the server and changing the password I found 200.000 spam

mails in the work directory that had not been sent. I moved these away

and restarted the server. Everything runs fine.

 

After that I found 153 non Spam mails between the 200.000 mails, I moved

these files back in the work directory (*.idx and *.itm).

 

However, despite restarting surgemail, these 153 are not sent.

 

How do get surgemail to work on these?

 

Thanks

 

Stephan