We've had several POP and SMTP and Spool issues in the past few months, all of which were straightened out per assistance from everyone here - (Len, we're still going to implement the IMGate solution, just need to free that server up for it ; haven;t forgotten about you!). Things have been running great for the past couple of weeks....
All of a sudden, beginning this past Friday, we are beginning to experience a tremendous slowness in users (external and internal) connecting to SMTP to send out email only during the business hours; nothing has changed in quantities of emails or bandwidth of email traffic handled during the day; no setting changes recently; POP access flies as it has recently.... when sending a simply email , it will take 30 seconds to a minute to complete connection to server, before upload of message takes place..... Any ideas ? IM v7.06 dual piii 800 raid 5 scsi (i know this isn;t the best setup) 1GB ram plenty of HDD left on both C: (1GB - program files) and D: (48GB - spool and mailboxes) Sincerely, Randy Armbrecht Global Web Solutions�, Inc. 804-346-5300 x102 877-800-GLOBAL (4562) x102 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher J. Hinkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:13 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] smtp32.exe failed to initialize properly > > > >Every so often we get the following error messages... there > > >will often be several at once (usu. >10), and these will > > >coincide with a spike in SMTP volume. > > > > > >How have people found best to deal with this kind of problem? > > >Should we increase or decrease the "Maximum Processes" number > > >(set to 60) or the "delay between recipients" (set to 1)? > > > > The value of 60 may be pushing you over the limit (you can go to > > http://www.declude.com/dq.htm for an overview of this issue, which is > > caused by a combination of a Microsoft not documenting a > > scarce resource, > > and the IMail architecture). > > -Scott > > Ok, so I specified 256k for the mystery heap in the registry, installed > Declude Confirm (without the .cfg file), snuck the max processes down to > > 50, and rebooted. Two mass mailings were sent this morning for a total > of 8000 recipients and the server crapped out... Thousands of little > "SMTP32.EXE" OK boxes popped up between 6-7am (mailing was sent at 6), > and the server crashed because nobody was paying attention. In the > Imail > Syslogs, I'm finding these starting around 6:40am: > > 10:22 06:48 SMTPD(CP) error 1455 executing "e:\imail\Declude.exe" > "e:\imail\spool\Q2d170066009c272f.SM > > 10:22 07:21 SMTPD(CP) error 1450 executing "e:\imail\Declude.exe" > "e:\imail\spool\Q34b40023008ce36d.SM > > I'm guessing this just means that there's no more memory to start a new > declude.exe process, right? But they continue until 7:22am.... the > machine continues to send mail out until 7:45am when everything stopped. > > Any ideas? > > chris. > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [Scanned for viruses on GlobalWeb.net's system using Declude/F-Prot AV] > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
