alfredo writes:
> Hi everyone, I love SMTPRcv but it has a couple of recurring
> problems.
>
> Using Win2k server with auto upgrades, it revs up the CPU to 100%
> between 1 and 5 times a day.
>
> The inlog file shows the same incoming message four or five times a
> second, for hours on end, so that the inlog file can be many hundreds
> of megabytes, filled with (almost) the same entry.
>
> It shows the same msg file coming in, but around a 20th of a second
> apart, as if the server were being flooded, except it isn't because
> then it would show a different msg file. Also, when I track down the
> message, it turns out to be something innocuous, not a spam flood.
Are you sure that the message isn't looping? Make sure that SMPTDS isn't
sending it back repeatedly (I've seen that often enough that I had to beef
up Trash Finder to handle it).
> Meanwhile, since the SMTPRcv process has the CPU revved up to 100%, I
> try to stop the process with Proc Explorer, but 95% of the time I
> can't stop it that way. I have to use SysInternals' Proc Explorer,
> which does kill it 100% of the time. It restarts normally.
SMTPRCV is hard to stop successfully; you have to wait for all of the
threads to terminate or restarting it makes a mess. It's probably just not
responding to the termination very fast, because of whatever is causing the
infinite loop.
Sorry that I can't help more (TF Gateway gets those sorts of problems now on
my system, as it filters the mail before IMS sees it).
Randy.
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