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Re: [FW1] $FWDIR/spool-Dir running full with mails



In Addition,

We had the same problem and modified our rulebase and kept the trendmicro
rules at the top as these are the most widely used rules and it worked.Also
check if your smtp server is being used as a relay.

To stop that,either you need to define additional rules in checkpoint or in
smtp relay server.

pradeep
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ingles" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:06 AM
Subject: RE: [FW1] $FWDIR/spool-Dir running full with mails


>
> I've found when I have several thousand messages in the spool dir, it
> performs best when I take all but a few hundred or so out of the spool dir
> and fire up the mdq. Then I move a few hundred in at a time. That seems to
> unclog it. It doesn't explain why they backed up in the first place
though...
>
> Mark Ingles
>
>
> At 03:38 PM 5/21/01, Chris Happel wrote:
>
> >Make sure your SMTP server isn't an open spam relay; look at the text of
the
> >files plugging the spool - if they are mostly spam to domains other than
> >yours, you may have an issue.
> >
> >Chris Happel
> >CISSP CCSE CCNA CCDA MCSE
> >Senior Network Engineer
> >Bay Dweller, Inc
> >> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >From:   Daniel Wirth [mailto:[email protected]]
> >Sent:   Monday, May 21, 2001 9:12 AM
> >To:     Checkpoint Mailingliste
> >Subject:        [FW1] $FWDIR/spool-Dir running full with mails
> >
> >
> >Dear Firewall-Experts,
> >
> >We have a Check Point FW-1 4.1 SP3 (Win NT) connected to Trend Micro ISVW
> >via CVP. The Interscan reports all in- and outgoing E-mails and hands
them
> >back to the Firewall. But the Firewall Mail dequeuer doesn't send them
> >anymore. Now there are several thousand mails in the queue.
> >
> >I tried a "fw mdq" but this didn't help. I guess, the load was too much
for
> >the machine. Has anyone expirienced something like this before and solved
> >it? Will restarting the Firewall help? What causes this kind of problem
and
> >how can I avoid it in the future?
> >
> >If you have answers to one of the above questions, please help!
> >
> >Best Regards,
> >
> >Daniel Wirth
> >Consultant Network Security
> >_____________________________________________________
> >Daniel Wirth         Systemberater Netzwerksicherheit
> >IQproducts GmbH      Max-Planck-Str. 5, 80609 Dornach
> >Tel.: ++49 89 944940-0        Fax.: ++49 89 944940-50
> >eMail: [email protected]  http://www.iqproducts.de
> >_____________________________________________________
> >Bitte beachten Sie fuer Ihre Supportanfragen:
> >Tel.: ++49 89 944940-77  eMail: [email protected]
> >
> >IQproducts ist ein Unternehmen der Systematics AG
>
>
>
>
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