There was a patch for this problem in version 6. It sounds like it may not
have been applied to his installation.
David Daniels
System Administrator
Starfish Internet Service
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"Clicking my fingers to the bone"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Roy Childers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] bad email consuming server
>
> >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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