>We got the exact same problem...and Eventually we
>shut down IMail, rebooted the server and it worked. Don't ask us why...
You only need to stop/start the SMTP service, not "shut down" all of Imail,
(if that's what you were doing).
If you happened to see my msg of yesterday, I discovered that SMTPD process
that does SMTP AUTH has a different NT process id, pid, from the SMTPD
process that is handling the rest of a given SMTPD session AND the SMPTD
AUTH process kept the same PID all day.
This could explain why SMTP traffic in/out can keep moving, while SMTPD
AUTH alone can die.
I'm still waiting for somebody suffering from SMTP AUTH hangs to work with
me on a little PERL script I have to monitor for unresponding SMTP AUTH
commands and automatically stop/start SMTP service.
ie, I have a solution to test, but I don't have the SMPT AUTH pb to test it
with!!
Len
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