Steve, try Service Keeper. This will help to restart any NT service.
Dan
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From: "Steve House (Work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:23:16 -0500
>Please help!
>
>Situation: According to Ipswich, you have to make sure that your SQL
>external database is available before you start the IMail services.
>Otherwise, as we have seen, IMail will not try to reconnect to the DB after
>it fails to on the first attempt. As a result, often no one can log into
>their accounts until the services are stopped and then started. Second,
>since IMail cannot find any mailboxes, all the mail sent to a particular
>domain is sent to the "nobody" alias. We have no problems rebooting our
>database server and then our web server, however, we have experienced serous
>mail routing issues when the database server has hung unexpectedly.
>
>Has anyone else dealt with this situation? My guess is the ODBCUSER.DLL
>file. Has anyone modified it to keep trying? What about mail monitoring
>software that will restart the services?
>
>Any help is appreciated!
>
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