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| | Our spool folder is growing large, mostly with .SMD files. What is an SMD file? I suspect any that are in our folder created or modified very early this morning are nothing I want. Can I delete them? |
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| Here are a list of Spool File Acronyms.
Question/Problem: What files are in the queue (the imail\spool directory)?
Answer/Solution:
End in .SMD - SMTP file
End in .TMP - Web Messaging or Beeper or Pager
End in .NTF - delivery notification responses
End in .GSC - files created by imail1.exe
End in .GSE - error messages from postmaster
End in .VAC - vacation messages
Start with F - Fax file.
Start with D - Data file, should have a matching Q file
Start with Q - Tells SMTP what to do with the data file
Start with ~ - processing file. If the next three characters are NEX, then it is being processed by Web Messaging or by imail1.exe.
(See: IMail - How to send multiple attachments using imail1.exe)
Web Messaging creates its attached files in the spool. Windows Explorer naming conventions are used for multiple files; you could have attach.txt, attach(1).txt, attach(2).txt, and so on. These should be cleaned up as part of the delivery process. However, as with SMTP, if there is some failure during delivery (i.e., if something crashes) old files may remain.
D*.SMD files are the the body of the E-mail, and the Q*.SMD are the headers or "recipient information" for the corresponding D*.SMD file. A lone D*.SMD with no Q*.SMD file is a "double bounce" (the E-mail bounced, and the bounce message bounced). T*.SMD files are in the process of being received, and _*.~MD files are ones that are being processed/delivered.
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