Ok, I'm having some problems I never had until upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4/1.5. For a reason unknown to me, XMail tends to 'freeze' and will not process any requests (POP3 or SMTP). When XMail enters this state there are *many* sockets left in varying states as reported by netstat. I'm running Debian Linux kernel 2.4.17.
Now, to give you an idea for what I mean by the netstat report, allow me to C&P the last one I received: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 webducky.com:smtp 216-73-102-153.ocd:3884 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 webducky.com:smtp 207.233.132.20:1998 SYN_RECV tcp 0 0 webducky.com:smtp 64.5.230.158:4262 SYN_RECV tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44233 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44136 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:ssh 65.193.106.34:61645 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 webducky.com:ssh 65.193.106.34:61645 ESTABLISHED tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44171 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44235 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44139 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44107 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp qmail3.bulk.yahoo.:3886 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44234 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44138 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44173 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp mail13.transcentiv:1754 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp n25.groups.yahoo.:34104 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44172 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:pop3 ppp-66-124-115-190:1486 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44140 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44175 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44239 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44143 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44174 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:pop3 ppp-66-124-115-190:1388 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44193 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44161 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44257 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp imo-r09.mx.aol.co:63686 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 webducky.com:ssh 65.193.106.34:61668 ESTABLISHED tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44192 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44160 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp imo-r09.mx.aol.co:50727 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp n11.groups.yahoo.:41922 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:pop3 pc-62-30-49-169-st:1526 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44259 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44162 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44258 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44261 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44229 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44260 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44135 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44230 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:pop3 ppp0008.firese:zebrasrv CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44185 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44121 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44184 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 webducky.com:www 157.91.105.5:5731 TIME_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:pop3 pc-62-30-49-169-st:1518 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44123 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44186 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44122 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44189 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44125 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44124 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44191 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44159 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44190 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp mta100.cheetahmail:1442 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44158 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44158 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44241 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44145 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44240 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44144 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:pop3 ppp-66-124-115-190:1457 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44243 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 webducky.com:smtp smtp3.intervolved:20089 ESTABLISHED tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44147 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44115 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44242 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44146 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44114 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:pop3 pc-62-30-49-169-st:1504 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp imo-r09.mx.aol.co:54546 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp glimmer.focusdata:57670 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp hawk.mail.pas.ear:50319 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44183 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 webducky.com:smtp imo-r09.mx.aol.co:65232 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 7 0 webducky.com:smtp r77h130.afo.net:44182 CLOSE_WAIT You'll note the great bulk of them are from r77h130.afo.net connecting to smtp. Now, it seems odd to me that so many of these sockets are left in a CLOSE_WAIT state. To try to clean things up, I ran the /etc/init.d/xmail stop script (which took 16 minutes to execute). Even after that, the above list of sockets was still present. Not until I killed all the XMail processes (most of which were marked defunct; 3 or 4 were not, of which 1 or 2 were parent processes) did the sockets clean up after themselves. Any thoughts? I'm using the binaries provided by the RPM after processing it through alien to get a DEB. Most of the time it works fine, but once or twice a day I have to reset it. SDR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
