Yes, they are all complete email addresses.
Yes, I called tech support when this first happened and I checked the list
in question for any "malformed" lines. I even sent the user.txt file to
ipswitch, he created a list and successfully sent email to it, neither his
server nor mine had any problem. He recommended doing a complete uninstall
of IMail and installing it again, not a small project. It only seems to give
me trouble when the list and recipients are on the same server.
Yes, it only occurs with the largest list (AllStaff, about 1,500) or when a
number of smaller lists are being sent to at the same time. I am using
DOList on another server to run the ALLStaff list. I thought that was the
solution until the users started to use a number of small lists at the same
time which also locks up the IMail server.
I am only using a few group aliases and they only have a few addresses in
them. None of the group aliases are included in the AllStaff list.
Do you know under what circumstances IMail would leave 10-20 SMPT32.EXE
processes running taking 0% CPU? Once that occurs it's all over, time to
reboot. I had perfmon logging running the last time it happened. I sent the
log file to a consultant to see if he can find any resource that is being
maxed out right before the freeze.
Thanks for trying to help.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail "takes control" of my link
Tom,
Do ALL of your Lists have complete email addresses for each user? If not,
then please make it so.
If your list files have been 'damaged', that can cause a similiar problem.
Check each file VERY carefully, looking for spaces that do not belong. Each
line should have ONLY 1 email address (User.txt has email address and
username per line).
If you could figure out which list is the cause of your trouble, then you
would reduce the work needed to find/fix the problem. It would not hurt to
remove any 'bad' addresses on each list as these will only serve to delay
your mailings and make IMail work harder and longer to get the job done.
If you are using a Group Alias that has more than 50 email addresses (again
should be complete address!), then you need to change that to a List,
instead.
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 10:42 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMail "takes control" of my link
> I am having the same problem. I will have a number of smtp32.exe processes
> in my NT task list using 0% CPU, at this point the imail is looked up and
I
> have to reboot my server. It always happens on large lists or when a
number
> of smaller lists are being used at the same time.
>
> I upgraded to 6.02 from 5.x, no help, I tried changing the registry entry
> for max processes, nothing helps. Not stable at all.
>
> I'm running on a PIII 400 with 512Mb NT 4.0/SP5 and about 5,000 accounts.
>
> Please let me know if you find anything or if you move to another product
> (I'd like to evaluate it also).
>
> I can't/won't put up with this much longer!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rubens Altimari
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail "takes control" of my link
>
>
> The other day I thought IMail was taking too long to send e-mails to a
> list. That was nothing compared to what it did to my link!
>
> I have a client who has about 10 different lists, each holding some 50
> users. Sometimes he sends one single e-mail for every list, so it must be
> about 500 users at a time. When this happens, IMail launches so many
> instances of smtp32.exe that my link is compromised!
>
> Is there anything I can do about it? If I change the "Number of
> recipients per message" will it help? Is there any "bandwidth" registry
> setting or something like it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rubens
>
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