thanks very much Len for your reply...I will try what you advised. However, when I was looking at IMail today on the server I noticed there seemed to be over 40,000 files in the spool. Is it usual to have so many files in the queue?
We have a small website with a modest number of subscribers and I cannot imagine how there could be that many emails waiting to be sent! Maybe this is my problem? thanks again, ndm > From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 00:56:50 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] multiple instances of SMTP32.exe running > > >> 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/ > 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/
