>From a command prompt do a netstat -a it you see a lot of ports in the wait_close state then you are experiencing a problem with the monitor service gobbling up the outbound ports. Stop the monitor service from monitoring the WWW service. I bet your problem will go away.
Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yoder, Chris > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:52 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [IMail Forum] SMTP service mysteriously stopped working > > > We're running IMail Server 8.05 > > We've been having occasional problems where the SMTP service > just stops > doing anything. The service shows as 'running', but the spool file just > keeps growing. Restarting the server (system) gets the spool > file to empty > and mail flowing again. > > I've looked in the log*.txt file and see that the last entry for SMTP > last night is 190842. This is close to the time that the big pile up of > messages in the spool file started. (There are entries for SMTPD, but not > SMTP.) This morning, the entries for SMTP start up again after I > restarted > the SERVER. > > Ideas on how I can prevent this from happening in the future? > > -- Chris Yoder Smog, Just say NO! > Director of Information Services Drive electric today. > for Development & Alumni Relations > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.its.caltech.edu/~rcy/ > > Life is 20% what happens to you and 80% how you deal with it. > > 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/
