The manual cleaning is a much better solution IMO. It will take more time, but it will narrow down the problem much quicker.
Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Katie La > Salle-Lowery > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] server constant at 100% cpu--me, too! > > > 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/ > 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/
