By any chance are there aliases embedded in aliases (locally)?
Eric S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:00 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMail "takes control" of my link
> Yes, they are all complete email addresses.
>
> Yes, I called tech support when this first happened and I checked the list
> in question for any "malformed" lines. I even sent the user.txt file to
> ipswitch, he created a list and successfully sent email to it, neither his
> server nor mine had any problem. He recommended doing a complete uninstall
> of IMail and installing it again, not a small project. It only seems to
give
> me trouble when the list and recipients are on the same server.
>
> Yes, it only occurs with the largest list (AllStaff, about 1,500) or when
a
> number of smaller lists are being sent to at the same time. I am using
> DOList on another server to run the ALLStaff list. I thought that was the
> solution until the users started to use a number of small lists at the
same
> time which also locks up the IMail server.
>
> I am only using a few group aliases and they only have a few addresses in
> them. None of the group aliases are included in the AllStaff list.
>
> Do you know under what circumstances IMail would leave 10-20 SMPT32.EXE
> processes running taking 0% CPU? Once that occurs it's all over, time to
> reboot. I had perfmon logging running the last time it happened. I sent
the
> log file to a consultant to see if he can find any resource that is being
> maxed out right before the freeze.
>
> Thanks for trying to help.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail "takes control" of my link
>
>
> Tom,
>
> Do ALL of your Lists have complete email addresses for each user? If not,
> then please make it so.
>
> If your list files have been 'damaged', that can cause a similiar problem.
> Check each file VERY carefully, looking for spaces that do not belong.
Each
> line should have ONLY 1 email address (User.txt has email address and
> username per line).
>
> If you could figure out which list is the cause of your trouble, then you
> would reduce the work needed to find/fix the problem. It would not hurt to
> remove any 'bad' addresses on each list as these will only serve to delay
> your mailings and make IMail work harder and longer to get the job done.
>
> If you are using a Group Alias that has more than 50 email addresses
(again
> should be complete address!), then you need to change that to a List,
> instead.
>
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> Ipswitch Technical Support
> ________________________________________________________
> See our Knowledge Base at http://support.ipswitch.com/kb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 10:42 AM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMail "takes control" of my link
>
>
> > I am having the same problem. I will have a number of smtp32.exe
processes
> > in my NT task list using 0% CPU, at this point the imail is looked up
and
> I
> > have to reboot my server. It always happens on large lists or when a
> number
> > of smaller lists are being used at the same time.
> >
> > I upgraded to 6.02 from 5.x, no help, I tried changing the registry
entry
> > for max processes, nothing helps. Not stable at all.
> >
> > I'm running on a PIII 400 with 512Mb NT 4.0/SP5 and about 5,000
accounts.
> >
> > Please let me know if you find anything or if you move to another
product
> > (I'd like to evaluate it also).
> >
> > I can't/won't put up with this much longer!
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rubens Altimari
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:46 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail "takes control" of my link
> >
> >
> > The other day I thought IMail was taking too long to send e-mails to
a
> > list. That was nothing compared to what it did to my link!
> >
> > I have a client who has about 10 different lists, each holding some
50
> > users. Sometimes he sends one single e-mail for every list, so it must
be
> > about 500 users at a time. When this happens, IMail launches so many
> > instances of smtp32.exe that my link is compromised!
> >
> > Is there anything I can do about it? If I change the "Number of
> > recipients per message" will it help? Is there any "bandwidth" registry
> > setting or something like it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Rubens
> >
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