Ah outbound. OK, it's probably a problem with your McCrappy box then if I understand your configuration correctly. Your IMS is configured to forward all mail to a specific host and that host is the McCrappy box correct? If that's the case, I believe that if you enable some verbose logging you'll see your IMS queue go wonky immediately following a refusal by your smart host to accept mail which it should be accepting. That puts your IMS into a retry state because it's link is down according to its routing logic.
-----Original Message----- From: John Orban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:58 AM Posted To: swynk Conversation: What causes mail to back up in the IMS queue? Subject: RE: What causes mail to back up in the IMS queue? I'm sorry, it's backing up in the outbound queue (outbound messages awaiting deliver). Looking at the messages usually indicates a name resolution issue which, of course, is DNS. But I don't understand why it (DNS) would just stop working. I've got my main Active Directory server (which is also my main file and print server) running DNS. I have a static IP address on the Exchange server pointing to the DNS server as the primary and then to my ISP's DNS servers as secondary (and tertiary). You know I'm also getting messages from the Exchange listserv that my account is on hold. I know Ed looked into this earlier and noticed something wonky but I was never able to figure out how to resolve it. Right now I'm answering this on the Swynk website since I'm not receiving messages again from the group. I did find a post through Google that said I should restart the MTA as well as the IMC. But I'm thinking if this is a DNS issue that's not going to help. But then, I don't understand why rebooting the computer helps since DNS is on a completely different machine. The DNS Event log on my DNS server is "clean" there are only informational events, nothing even remotely resembling anything wrong with DNS on that machine, so it's GOT to be localized to the Exchange server. I see nothing in either the Application or System logs in the Event viewer prior to this problem that gives me any clues. Thanks for any thoughts. John _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
