A minor point, pausing the VS may result in the 155 out bound queues still completing their mail transfer, stopping the services may terminate all initiated connections before completion. If you pause the service wait for 10 minutes to see if the number of active connections reduce and therefore the bandwidth should decrease.
Looking the spool directories of the VS and see what the content of the messages are. You may have a configuration problem and been hit by spammers (internally or externally) or a virus (but I think you wopuld know that pretty quickly in your inbox) I tyake it scanmail is on the exchange server and not acting as a SMTP gateway? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pascoe, Rick Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:10 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: SMTP Virtual Server problem I'm not an exchange expert so my problem may or may not be "normal" Exchange 2000 sp3 on Server 2000 sp4, fully patched running Trend ScanMail 6, updated hourly. This server relays mail for our ListServ server which previously worked fine (relaying is set up for only our listserv server) This morning we sent out some listserv emails (more than normal) and everything seemed to work ok except our access to the internet slowed down to the point that pings timeout or show 2300+ms. I've got it down to where if I stop the SMTP virtual server, all internet access comes back up to speed. Pausing the VS has no effect. The outbound queues (155 of them) are mostly in an active state with 16 on retry. Disabling all connections and freezing all messages had no effect on internet access, only stopping the VS. For fun I restarted the server but to no avail. Our network itself seems not affected as speeds connecting to servers/shares etc. are normal. Diagnostic logging for SMTP wasn't enabled earlier so I enabled it (maximum) but so far haven't seen anything useful. Any ideas on what else I should check? Rick Pascoe IT Department St. Anne School 949/487-2663 x232 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. ********************************************************************** Northland State of the Environment Report 2002 now online at www.nrc.govt.nz ********************************************************************** NORTHLAND REGIONAL COUNCIL This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
