>Some PERL hero needs to write us 25-line PERL script that runs every >minute and >tries to SMTP AUTH, then if it fails, cycle the SMTP svc.
Don't know how to do that with perl, but we use CRT, a telnet app with an easy to learn/use scripting language that can do that very easily. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:52:28 -0500 > >>Any idea how to fix it? > >re-apply sp6a? run the lastest March patch to 6.06 > >Some PERL hero needs to write us 25-line PERL script that runs every minute >and tries to SMTP AUTH, then if it fails, cycle the SMTP svc. > >I'd pay $50 for that script, today. > >>My clients are getting ticked that email is not working. > >they have more patience than I > >>IPSwitch, I know you monitor the list at times, can we not get a working >>product?? >>Especially on an issue as important as SMTP Auth ?????? > >This is a very old issue, Imail SMTP AUTH is, traditionally at this point, >a very delicate and apparently easily broken service, for some mysterious >reason. > >The SMTPD session that calls SMTP AUTH keeps running, it's just the called >SMTP AUTH routine that fails, then works, then fails. Sometimes it fails >and requires an SMTP stop/start to kick it back into service. > >Without upping to the March patch, my SMTP AUTH has not failed in over 24 >hours vs 20 times/day on Sun, Mon last. > >Len > > >http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training >http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K >http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
