>one more thing when I look at the queue I notice that the mess. that seem to >be getting hung are the ones sent by my boss to multiple recipients, (if any >one is the spammers it is him, with his 2billion a day jokes)
Please show him your Acceptable Use Policy. We have seen Imail SMTP processes become zombies and fill up memory doing nothing when they pick "bad format" messages from the queue. The SMTP processes die, but the messages lives to zombie another day. Your symptoms sound similar. To fix it quickly, move the queued message files from spool dir to spool/save (move, not copy, ie, copy the delete the source files). then re-boot to clear memory. Mail should move fast again with a "normal" birth/death of SMTP sending processes. The you will have to move the spool/save files back in groups to spool, to see which group contains the killer msg (s). tedious work. Len 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/
