Today I was blessed with a mail server on the fritz.  The CPU was pegging at
100%, and I had difficulty doing much of anything.  I've noticed that the
CPU was maxing itself out alot lately, but wasn't figuring out exactly why
(I guess it's times like these when you are forced to figure it out!)
Anyway, I pulled up the Task Manager and saw that there were several
instances of ntvdm.exe, smtp32.exe, etc.  The spool was filling up fast (hit
over 3000 messages rather quickly).  A search through the archives said
something about the "heap" issues and pointed to a potential solution on
Microsoft's website regarding editing the config.nt file.  
 
I stopped all the iMail services, moved the files from the spool folder, and
edited the config.nt file.  After a reboot, everything seems to be working
great - better than ever (knocking on wood).  I moved the files back into
the spool folder and it is processing great.  Perhaps I dodged another
bullet.
 
My question is - it appears that this "magic" fix took care of things - but
why now?  Also, when it started processing messages again, I noticed several
messages (mainly from website forms that were filled out) that were from two
months ago.  I'm a little confused by that (and so are our clients who are
yelling about it).  
 
For what it's worth, we are on a Windows 2000 server with iMail 8.22 and the
latest Declude suite.

Any thoughts?
 
Todd
 
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Todd Richards
Director of Technology
National Network, Inc.
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402.778.7903

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