What do you mean the disk is really the problem?
if the disk i/o is congested, then STMPD is congested and can't dump the inbound msgs to the queue.
I am unable to telnet to the server on port 25 remotely or setting in front of it and doing a telnet localhost 25 or telnet 127.0.0.1 25.
then SMTPD is really so screwed up it's not listening.
The smtpd service never stopes running if I look at task manager during this time all of the imail services I run are still running and nothing is using 100% of the cpu or enormous amounts of memory.
what about disk i/o in the SMTPD-no-answer state?
The smtp setting I am using is relay for addresses with only my ip addresses listed. As I said this server has been running for a month without a problem
well, yeah, there was no problem until there was a problem
,the only changes I have done are implement the spam processing and myself and ipswitch have looked thru the log files trying to find any potential problems but are unable to...the log is still showing rdeliver
... outbound
and ldeliver
... which must be first received from somewhere (since SMTPD isn't answering), and that somewhere must webmail, local to local deliveries.
but I am unable to access the smtp port.
Since you can't get a response from :25 and netstat -an isn't showing any established connections to port 25 (no influx of inbound mail needing to be dumped to the queue), I'd concentrate on the disk i/o, and frag level of the queue partition.
stop smtp
mv the entire spool/* to somewhere else
start smtp
to see if SMTPD starts answering again.
Len
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