Tom - I read your email with a great deal of interest. I've been battling the
same problem for exactly one year now... I have to restart the IMail server
sometimes 5 or 6 times a day. Tried recreating lists, mailboxes, increasing the
page file (presently at 3x my 256 meg. of RAM), all the latest upgrades/patches
(I'm presently at IMail 6.03 and NT4 w/sp6)... all to no avail.
Are you logging IMail SMTP events? If so, have you ever noticed what looks like
a "blank" line after you've rebooted your server? Are there files in your IMail
spool folder which appear to be blank when opened?
Maybe between us we can finally get this resolved!?! You ARE NOT alone!
Bill Cleland
Rio Rancho High School (NM)
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Harmon
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 1:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.
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