>We have an NT server running IMail 6.06. > >Every 24 hours or so, our server becomes increasingly sluggish and slow to >respond. This is due to multiple SMTP32.exe files running in the task >manager, that gradually eat up all the processing power until basically the >server just stops and must be rebooted.
This could be the "poison message" problem. A bad message in the send queue gets picked up by an SMTP process that croaks and zombies. The msg is still in the queue so another SMTP process, etc, etc. Memory fills up, deliveries slow to nothing. >Please excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know how I can resolve this >issue? if it's the poison thing, move (not copy) all mail in the spool directory to another directory, reboot the machine. the move chunks of files the relocated directory back to the imail spool until you bring back the bad one. >Is the solution to uninstall / reinstall IMail? Is this a bug or Virus? but in Imail, it must not be trashed by a garbage message. >The strange thing is that we have had IMail on the server for almost a year >with nothing like this ever happening. it's a very occassional problem. I suggest this might be yr problem, which could be something else. 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/
