Thanks for your input. Looks like we will need to write some scripts to
clean the house every night.

-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail pop errors



>All of these culprit IP's are from our dial-up modem pools. We will
look
>into the network traffic issue. Would deceasing the allowable mailbox
>sizes speed up the pop checking and possibly alleviate this issue?

very possibly.

>  Also
>one other thought, In the log file we get a parse error on particular
>mailboxs..then we get the cpu issue.

hmm, causality?

>  It seems as though the pop account
>is getting locked or corrupted and then the cpu shoots up.

yep, from the many reports here, it seems the STMP process when reading 
queue files and writing mailboxes, and the POP process, when reading 
mailboxes, are way too sensitive to garbage files, with faults like SMTP

processes becoming zombies and filling memory, or what you are seeing
with 
the POP processes.

Since you can't fix IMail's lack of immunity to garbage intput, so
you've 
got to find + fix the garbage in the queue files and in the mailboxes.

In many important aspects, smaller/emtpy mailboxes are ALWAYS better,
and 
bigger mailboxes are ALWAYS worse.

Len


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