Peter, List,
I promised I would report back on any findings with my weird thread issue and I think 
I have found it.. At least I hope so. Going on 3 days now with 0 connections hung.. 

After spending a bit of time with pop3 logs and smtp logs I found one very small error 
that appears to have created the bigger problem. 

POP3D [EMAIL PROTECTED] [xxxxxxx] [x.x.x.x]: Mailbox message 0 [pos 1] is invalid 
[DELE]

This error within this one mailbox appears to have caused the END USER pop3 to error 
but not close the connection.. Over a period of time this user would chew up all of 
the pop3/threads on the server... Increasing the threads just seemed to prolong the 
hang but would eventually reach the limit. All along I could tell what IP address had 
"most" of the hung connections but because this is a NAT point at a office in front of 
30+ users, I had no idea which real user was hanging it. I have since deleted and 
re-created this users mailbox and the hung connections seemed to have stopped.. 

This was clearly not a Sambar issue because even the OS showed the sessions pending. 
Probably more Outlook madness. Glad I didn't cloud Tod with this issue ;)

As my lesson learned, be sure to pay close attention to the errors in your logs.. Not 
just the ones with MANY entries, but also those hard to see ones.

Danny










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