Hmm, POP doesn't send just retrieves..With the Holiday increase in spam it can tax you machine by just adding more overhead...
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail running away with processor... whats up ?
> Has there been an increase in message volume, spam or otherwise? > > With a recent increase in spam, we reached the point where we needed to up > the Delivery and Retry Threads for the Queue Manager. Not exactly sure why > this would affect POP sending, but it did in our case.
If the machine is stressed, any Imail service can suffer. POP is a very busy service, doing user AUTH, competing for disk access to read/write mailboxes.
Len
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