I've made a few connections to your server and some of those lasted over 50 seconds (my telnet program counts time of connection and I saw 70 once, but maybe some timeout makes it think it is longer). I saw numbers that got as high as 80-8, but the second was always larger in the first few seconds after the restart (not really surprising). It seems to take 10-15 seconds before the restart completes.
This is very strange operation! POP3 almost never stops and to see it doing it every minute, is bizarre! Does a re-install fix this at all? If not, try renaming the pop3d.exe to .old and reinstall (bad disk sector, maybe?). Set POP3 to Manual in services, and restart computer before install, if at all possible. Reset service back to Automatic, if install does not do this for you. Have you checked the HD? CHKDSK /F is still a good tool for many HD systems. Is your page file 3 times RAM? Did you find any other warnings or errors in the Event logs? Make them go away! Sorry nothing more specific, but it has the feel of a system problem... Can you try another NIC in the computer? Is the driver for the current NIC, the latest? Does the NIC have any power management enabled on it? You might try disabling that... Oh, I saw you playing with the service greeting... seems it's back to normal, now. Daniel Donnelly -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Waller Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IM POP3 service keeps stopping It definitely is stopping - I get disconnected from Telnet when it happens. The numbers are (for each telnet connection) 59-4 18-2 4-4 The service stops at exactly :53 seconds past the minute every two minutes. Some 30 seconds later the system restarts the POP3 mail service. Imail doesn't log down to the second logging to sys????.txt so I've set it to log to the event log instead. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly Sent: 06 November 2006 19:12 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IM POP3 service keeps stopping 1 minute is also the default poll interval for IMonitor. Shut it off, at least for a while. What happens when you manually try to stop/start the service? If that goes OK and quickly, does the restart have any effect on the situation? Did you enable logging in the POP3 service? Does the log show the service restarting when you do it and nothing otherwise? Maybe the service is not really stopping? If you telnet to port 110, the numbers at the end tell how many current connections and how many since last restart. If yours is really restarting every minute, I would expect the last number to be fairly small, certainly less than a thousand. What does the first number show? Daniel Donnelly -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IM POP3 service keeps stopping 60000 msec is one minute on the dot. Maybe it is never running. Are you getting mail though the POP3 service? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 1:26 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IM POP3 service keeps stopping > > I'm seeing the POP3 service failing every minute - on the dot... > > Event Type: Error > Event Source: Service Control Manager > Event Category: None > Event ID: 7031 > Date: 06/11/2006 > Time: 18:29:53 > User: N/A > Computer: DRUM > Description: > The IMail POP3 Server service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 > time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 > milliseconds: Restart the service. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Waller > Sent: 06 November 2006 15:51 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IM POP3 service keeps stopping > > There's nothing in the SMTP logs that's relevant. However, I am seeing > entries like: > > 11:06 15:55 POP3D UNK: > > Which I'm trying to find out what they mean. Aside from that it's just > logon/logoff successes > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Gregg > Sent: 06 November 2006 13:57 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IM POP3 service keeps stopping > >> Thanks for the advice. I will try what you suggest. Unfortunately, >> nothing of any consequence is being logged in the event log other than >> the rather generic "service stopped unexpectedly". > > Check the IMail log files. Lok for POP activity just prior to the POP > service stopping. 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