Some more info:
To get IMail to show the 'sent' dialogs, you will need to make the SMTP
service 'interact' with the desktop (NT settings!!, Thanks Bob S). I've also
seen it show these when the IMail Client, File, Settings, Sending, is set to
'Show Status'.
If still in the Queue and you click off that message and then back on to it
and it no longer shows the To:/From: info, then that message has been
delivered. Refresh the Queue by clicking another tab and then back to Queue
and you should see less files, now (assuming no new or new have been
processed).
Are there a large number of files in the Queue? The ones IMail is processing
are shown with ~ or _ in name/extension. Are there less of these than there
are SMTP32 processes? Should not be. There should be one SMTP32 for each
message being processed. If there are more, then there may be one or messages
in the Queue that are the cause of the trouble. Best technique is to move all
the Q and D files in the \spool to another (temporary directory). Now move
back pairs of the Q and D files (have the same name after the first letter).
Find in Queue tab, and do the Send One. If it goes, great, try another. If not
and it leaves a SMTP32 running (hard to say exactly how long to wait, check
the log to see if it is still processing that file), then you may have
located. Do for each and move any that do not send back to the temp dir.
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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In reply to 24 Aug message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>I have gone to the queue many times and clicked on the Send One option
>but I never get any message at all. It acts as if it is ignoring my
>requests. I have done this after killing the smtp processes and it
>still makes no difference....
>I have no listservers running and have a total of 6 mail accounts using
>two different domains (sharing one IP address). I have also come across
>an
issue where occasionally I get a bad username or password message
>when checking my mail then if I try again it works......
>Thanks for your help
>Diarmaid
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Daniel Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: 23 August 1999 20:31
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] smtp32.exe
>> Actually, IMail is not stopping, but in a state when there is as many
>smtp32
>> processes as will be allowed (each taking reasources!) and when a new
>message
>> comes in, a new smtp32 will start, but immediatlely shut down. Given
some
>> time, IMail will recover and begin processing the messages again. To
sped
>this
>> up and findout why it is happening, I'd first 'kill' smtp32. Now go to
the
>> Queue and find the messages that have zero tries. Highlight and click
>'Send
>> One'. If this is a local delivery, you should get a 'Message
delivered'
>popup.
>> If external, it will take longer, but should see same message. If you
get
>a
>> '..requeued..' message, then it could not be completely delivered and
has
>been
>> put back for another try. Now try on messages with larger number of
tries.
>> The ones with ~ or _ in name/extension are those that were in process
when
>the
>> 'kill' was issued. Try these last.
>>
>> Any that show large number of addresses in To, should also be tried
later
>in
>> the process (they take more time!). But do try them. If succesful or
>requeued,
>> then the file will go away, or get its name/extension changed back to
>> normal.
>>
>> Have you any List Servers? An incorrect setup could cause a 'loop'
and
>that
>> can cause large number of messages, very quickly. Attemping to
deliver,
>could
>> cause more mail, that causes more delivery (smtp32) processes, .....
Find
>out
>> which list it is and fix ASAP.
>>
>> Daniel Donnelly
>> Ipswitch Technical Support
>> ________________________________________________________
>> See our Knowledge Base at http://support.ipswitch.com/kb
>> URL for List Servers:
http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/mailing-lists.html
>>
>>
>>
>> In reply to 23 Aug message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>>
>> >I checked and that is not the problem. Also once about 20 instances
>> are
>> >running it stops delivering mail. It all just sits in the queue. Is
>>
>there anything you know of that would cause this?
>>
>> >BTW to upgrade to 5.06 do I need to go through all the previous
>> upgrades
>> >first?
>>
>> >Thanks for you help.
>>
>> >Diarmaid
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: ## Dusty Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Sent: 23 August 1999 13:23
>> >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] smtp32.exe
>>
>>
>> >> Check your logs and look at you relay options. It may be that
>> >> someone is relaying mail through your server.
>> >>
>> >> Dusty
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:40 AM
>> >> Subject: [IMail Forum] smtp32.exe
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > I have just installed Imail 5 and have set up only a few email
>> accounts
>> >> none
>> >> > of which are very active however I have noticed that there is
always
>> at
>> >> > least 20 instances of smtp32.exe in the task list. Is this
normal?
>> I
>> >> have
>> >> > also had times when the queue gets stuck and noone can get their
mail
>> >>
>> until
>> >> > I kill the smtp32.exe instances!!
>> >> >
>> >> > Has anyone got any ideas?
>> >>
>> >>
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