Some usual culprits:Well, this fix didn't work. Here it is 45 minutes later and it's hung again. There is no real network activity now and no server processes going on taking up it's time. The logs are setup on the server still have the query.log as zero and the stats.log as 1 byte with no useful information at all. (I can copy it in if you like)Switching it to named pipes apparently doesn't help either. What could be causing this? This never ever happened with the previous mail server which failed on me (hard drive failure) it was a less powerful machine, could that be the reason? The new server is more powerful than the machine running the sql server? This is ridiculous!
badly fragged mailqueue and mailbox partitions
huge mailboxes
tons of stale files in the spool/ directory
turn off logging in all imail services except SMTP to reduce disk i/o.
in the logs, can you find the last pop3d log lines at the point of each hang? any repetition of which mailboxes were last POPped? what are the .mbx file sizes of the last mailboxes POPped?
Len
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