>Here's a problem that has been bugging me and Ipswitch Tech Support is at a
>loss to explain it.
Welcome to the Last Chance Saloon.
>Currently we're in the process of migrating our users from PMDF on VMS to
>Imail. Approximately 250 users have been migrated. About a month ago rogue
>smpt32.exe processes are not properly terminating and have to be "killed"
>manually.
ok, that's the SMTP client for sending mail.
>Currently our Imail server is not listed in the MX records. We're doing all
>the mail forwarding from the VMS box to the Imail server using the
>forwarding features on VMS. Shortly the imail server will be listed as the
>primary MX and the VMS machine will no longer be in the mail loop. My
>concern/question is whether this will resolve the problem or make the
>problem much worse than it already is.
impossible to say. I can't see any relation between smtp client/sending
processes not terminating, and Imail SMTPD process receiving mail from VMS.
>Is this problem resulting from Imail getting "confused" since itself is
>not listed in the MX records.
The MX records that point to Imail are not queried by Imail, afaik. Why
would Imail want to query for which ip to send mail for domains that are on
the Imail machine? Imail "knows" what domains are local w/o querying DNS.
>At it stands right now I have to check and imail server several times a day
>to kill about a couple dozen of the stranded processes. Otherwise once the
>limit of processes has been reached the email backs up in the queue.
These are SMTP32 client processes or SMTPD32 server processes? If the
latter, then I'd suspect that VMS and Imail aren't Happy Together, so
you're pb will disappear when VMS stops relaying to Imail's SMTPD
server. If they are SMTP client processes then that's outbound mail and
the sysMMDD.logs are worth studying. It's reallly too bad Imail debugging
doesn't stamp the debug lines with time/date/pid.
Len
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