Re: [IMail Forum] Strange problem

[Vaughn Thurman]

NT's resolver service does become entwined with the MS DNS as soon as it (MS DNS) is installed.  MS DNS pre SP4 was roller coaster rubbish and pre SP5 was at best a square wheel.  SP5 resolves a lot of the issues with MS DNS.  I mention all of this because I have seen similar circumstances with other NT based mail servers and IP based apps as well (first hand).  The culprit almost always being the MS DNS server (even if not being used to resolve names).  Even if you are pointing at a remote DNS server in IMAIL, you still use the local resolver service to get to them...  Could be other things, but I have seen this enough that I think it is worth checking out.  SP4 and 5 both updated the Name resolver components. -V   ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Vasich To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Strange problem I had the problem and DNS was running on a different machine.  I could start and stop the mail server and that wouldnt fix it only restarting the machine would. Because of that I could see how it could be a problem with something else.  Just not the DNS for me. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Vaughn Thurman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Strange problem Are you running DNS on the same machine?  if so check that it is not a problem with DNS being dead and so outbound names suddenly become unresolvable...  Next time it happens try restarting DNS only, then process Queue on IMAIL as a test.  Rebooting may be fixing your "weakling" NT DNS service and IMAIL gets the blame. :) -V ----- Original Message ----- From: John Calhoun To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 10:28 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Strange problem I am having a strange problem with imail 5.0.  About every week or so imail stops sending and receiving mail.  It's like it holds all the mail in queue and I have to restart the machine to get it to release.  It doesn't lose any messages, it just stops doing it's thing until I restart then it works for about a week then does it again.  Anyone every heard of this?   -John