Thank you for your input I will continue to investigate the logs and see if I can see what email was attempting to process when the server stopped sending email.
I understand the point you are making and will, on any further post be as precise as possible to not waste others time with incorrect or vague information or wording regarding a problem. Thank You Greg --- "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The referecne was that neither the smtp nor the > >quemanager are using large amounts of cpu, nothing > is > >using 100% of the cpu when this happened. > > > >The only sympton is that people can not SEND email > >they can still receive without a problem > > It's important to be precise. Although everyone > make gramatical error > [even I.], it's a problem when they interfere with > the context of your > E-mail. If instead of "no one can send a receive" > and "the quemanager nor > smtp are using enormous amounts of process time", > you had used "no one can > send but they can receive" and "neither the > quemanager nor smtp are using > enormous amounts of process time", you would have > saved the time that > several people put into responding. This isn't an > attack, but if you look > at both of those quotes, you'll see two key pieces > of information that > could be taken two different ways. > > >Can anyone any suggestions, as of now the server > >appears to be stable and has been for almost 18 > hrs. > > That's another very important clue. > > In this case, I would check the IMail SMTP log files > during the time that > this was happening. Look for a sample E-mail that > you tried to send, and > follow the log file entries to see what happened to > it. > > > -Scott > --- > Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution > for IMail mailservers. > Declude Virus: Catches known viruses and is the > leader in mailserver > vulnerability detection. > Find out what you have been missing: Ask for a free > 30-day evaluation. > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude > Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > 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/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com 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/
