Len & all, Our server has been suffering the same problem for about a week and a half -> two weeks. I've been "bandaiding" and thinking the problem was due to virus infected clients causing increases in SMTP. However, this post makes me wonder if that is not the case. Reading the Imail manual I got the impression that multiple instances of smtp32.exe was normal. Is this not the case? Or is it the extent of the multiplication that is out of whack?
What could have caused smtp32.exe to "get zombied" if that is the problem? How about using isplcln? If the message has been in the spool for weeks causing the problem would you think that isplcln would get rid of it? For what it's worth, I did run isplcln the first day I noticed the problem and I have rebooted the server three times now. It occurs to me that if that was really the first day that the "killer message" was in the spool, my parameters for isplcln wouldn't have gotten it (I set it for 3 days). Pending more responses I'm going to try isplcln again. If that works for me, I'll let you know, Bonno. If it doesn't, I'm going to try Len's suggestion for cleaning out the spool manually. Thanks, Katie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] server constant at 100% cpu >I currently have some problems with my IMail 7.0x server where I have >multiple smtp32.exe processes running which max out the server at 100%. >Problem is >1) I can not stop these processes, stopping the SMTP service from >within Imail won't stop these extra smtp32 processes running, not even >after several minutes. sounds like you have, or had, a "killer message" in the queue. These msgs cause the SMTP client/delivery processes to become unkillable zombie processes. The best way to recover is re-boot the machine. >2) I currently have Declude as smtp32 and the IMail smtp32 engine as >ISmtp32, using the daisychain option to have declude call ISmtp32. >Trying to get back to the "normal" situation via a "copy ISmtp32.exe >smtp32.exe" does not work because the smtp32.exe file is locked. The problem is not a corrupted SMTP32.exe. The problem is vulnerable SMTP32.exe. > Restarting the entire Windows 2000 server last night did not help. :-( Well, it does, but "something" in the queue survives the reboot and the STMP processes get zombied again. "move" to entire spool/ to spool/save, and re-boot. New mail should flow normally with no SMTP zombies. Then copy msgs from spool/save/ in groups until you find the killer file. Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training: New York; Seattle; Chicago IMGate.MEIway.com: anti-spam gateway, effective on 1000's of sites, free 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/ 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/
