If you have an Alias root it will take precedence over the root user. If
you have root pointing to postmaster and postmaster
pointing to root that is a loop.
You will see several sending processes, smtp32.exe, but only one
listening process, smtpd.exe.
Dave
In reply to 31 Jan message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>Hi,
>we just installed the IMail v6.0 Eval and ran into several
>problems:
>(1) High System Load
>After 5-6 hours the system load increases from about 2% to
>100%. In Task Manager appear several instances of smtpd
>popping up in intervalls of about one second, eating around
>40% cpu performance. After rebooting the machine (PII/400,
>128 MB RAM, SCSI) everything works fine again -- for 5-6 hrs.
>We have something around 30 active users with not too much
>e-mail-traffic (less than one mail per user every five
>minutes or so). Rebooting NT server twice a day is a fine
>"workaround", but I would prefer to get along without this.
>(2) Postmaster-Alias doesen't work
>The "root" -> "postmaster"-Alias doesn't work; The user
>"root" exists and works; the alias "postmaster" (resolved to
>"root") does exist also, but mail to "postmaster" is never
>being delivered. Other (later created) Aliases do work fine.
>Does anybody have an idea why this happens?
>Thanks a lot!
>Regards
>-asb
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