>I have been having a frequent problem. When one of my users or listserv's
>sends a mail to a bad or non-existent address
do you have any specific examples to show us?
>, It often spawns multiple SMTP.exe processes in NT which keep running
>till I reboot the machine.
this doesn�t happen if simply the recipient@recipientdomain address is bad,
from what I�ve seen in the list.
> It then starts recording all the failed attempts in my Imail log. This
> has built up to 500 meg in some single days.
I think what is happening is what we have seen many times here.
The format of a msg is "bad", a "poison" msg, and Imail's SMTP procesess,
one after another, pick it up from the mail queue and croak, becoming
zombie processes that take up memory but do nothing, until there is no
memory left, and outgoing mail is stopped or sending very slowly. reboot
clears the memory, but doesn�t clear the bad msg from the queue. You have
to find that one manually, if you don�t croak first.
>I have the default settings in my SMTP setup of
>20 tries before sending back &
>30 in the que.
nothing weird there
Len
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