Imail 6.04c - NT4 sp5
After a post to a list a number of messages are processed but at some point
the processing seems to pause or perhaps stop for a time. There is nothing
really noticeable in the imail logs or the system logs. In Task Manager
there will the one stmpd32 task but but showing about normal memory use and
no cpu cycles. There are many - more than 30 - smtp tasks and almost all of
them show to be using hardly any memory except one which will be fairly
large.
I believe this also happens when any large number of messages are posted to
the spool but I haven't been able to prove it for certain.
Stopping and starting imail does not really seem to affect it much nor does
booting the server. But I can almost always make it start pumping again by
doing a send one on any message in the spool from the applet.
I "feel" like there is also something involved with messages that have
multiple retries although they seem to be handled fine after the send one is
issued.
Interestingly and perhaps in line with a post a few days ago the list
messages all have 5 recipients or fewer. But I don't really know if this is
a factor or not.
As an example this morning a list was posted at about midnight. I believe
there were about 130 messages placed in the spool. At 3:30 there were about
80 and nothing had been delivered for about 2 hours. I sent one and the
spool emptied in 15 or 20 minutes or less - wasn't paying attention.
My workaround so far is to monitor the spool.
Terry Fritts
Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
to be removed from this list.
An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
