On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Soenke Ruempler wrote: > On 27.10.2006 14:00, Tracy wrote: > > > I'm running XMail 1.20 (I know, not the current version) on Windows 2000 > > Server (SP4). I have two filters that run (one from pre-data - spam > > check, one from post-data - virus scan). > > > > For the last week, I've been noticing that mail delivery is running > > about 4 - 6 hours later than mail receipt. For example, I received about > > 5 minutes ago (7:50am) a posting from this mailing list with a time > > stamp of 3:09am - but checking the SMTP log for XMail shows that it was > > received by SMTP at 3:09:16 this morning. So, it sat in the processing > > queue somewhere for over 4.5 hours before being delivered to my mailbox. > > > > I have verified that if I stop XMail, then restart it, all the waiting > > mail suddenly gets delivered - but new items coming in still hang up in > > the queue. > > > > Any ideas on where to look for what might be causing this? I've checked > > to make sure that both the pre and post data filters are not hanging up > > anywhere - there aren't any copies of them still hanging around in the > > process list. And I've tried restarting the machine (same effect as > > restarting XMail - queued mail gets delivered, new arriving mail sticks > > in the queue). > > I remember exactly such behavior some time ago. There is some evil > message in the que that seems to stop SMAIL threads. I didn't find any > real solution but I somehow catched the evil thing. > > You can try the following: > > 1) Start XMail in debug mode and look when SMAIL stops processing the > que. Maybe the last entry is the message. > 2) Check all messages in the que (it shoud be the message in the rsnd/ > folder) - one of them is evil. > > If you catch the message it'd be great if you can investigate it for > some abnormal characters / sizes / etc. - I guess there's maybe some bug > in the software that has not been found & fixed - OR: some filter > screwed up a spool file and X(S)Mail doesn't like it anymore... > > I hope these tipps will help you. I'd appreciate some feedback. Thanks.
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