Hi Len! Man, I love you. It worked! Actually what i did was deleted more that 100000 emails from the spool directory and restarted the server...
The main reason was that some one was using the open mail relay with badly formatted mails. Now things are cool and running, Thanks to you! I could buy you a drink if you were aroung :-) Robin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP32 stops the mail server > > >Thank you very much for the suggestion. > >Let me explain a bit. If the limit of SMTP32.exe is set to 30 , then within > >one day i find that there are max no of smtp32 spwaned. Once the maximum > >number has reached , no more mail is being accepted. > > we have seen this before. The suspect, not always proven since people > didn't always get back to us, is a badly formatted message that zombies > each SMTP sending process that picks up the message to send it. > > >The most probable cause seems like that too many people are sending mail > >trougn server using jmail. > > no, all incoming mail gets queued to the spool directory by the SMTPD > receiving processes. As soon as possible an SMTP process picks up the a > queued msg to send it. jmail sends to the SMTPD and then the msg goes to > the queue which can hold 1000's of messages. > > >However my concern is that, why does not the smpt > >carry on once the queue is beign emtied! and continue.. > > because the SMTP processes abort in memory but do not leave memory. they > are zombie processes, the Living Dead, hanging around driving you crazy. :)) > > >If i consider your cause then smtp32 should only send mails. Then, how come > >i dont receive emails when there are too many of smtp32 ? > > > >This thing is making me crazy! > > 1. stop the SMTP service > > 2. in the spool directory, copy all files to a spool/save directory. > > 3. delete all files in the spool directory. > > 4. you can't kill the zombie processes with Task Manager. You can kill them > with Kill.exe from the Resource kit. The quickest is just re-boot the > machine. mail will begin flowing again. > > 5. the problem is that you need to get the mail from the spool/save > directory back into the spool directory, but one of those is a killer > msg. So copy the message file back to the spool in groups, while watching > to see if SMTP process go zombie. > > Len > > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
