The service couldn't start in a timely fashion. When lots of copying outgoing bandwidth occurs, Exchange's queue just holds all mail, it doesn't want to send it out.
Julian On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 21:49 -0500, Chris Scharff wrote: > What error do you get when you attempt to restart? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Julian Underwood > Posted At: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:22 PM > Posted To: swynk > Conversation: bandwidth related exchange problem? > Subject: bandwidth related exchange problem? > > Hi list, > > I have what I think is a strange Exchange problem. The exchange server > is 2003 standard running on Windows 2000. Both all patched up. The > server is connected to a sonicwall router going out to the Internet. I > am wanting to mirror all of the clients data to an offsite NAS device > which is going through a VPN tunnel. Whenever I start the copy job it > saturates the bandwidth of course, but for some reason messages get > stuck in the outgoing mail queue. If I stop the copy process, the > messages remain stuck in the queue. If I try and restart SMTP service, > the service stops, but is unable to start-up again. I have to reboot > the server at this point. > > Does anyone know why this might be happening? I would think that > messages could still leave the server, even if a good portion of the > outgoing bandwidth is being used... What do you think? > > Thanks, > > Julian > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
