>What I'm seeing on my system is several SMPT32 processes opening and taking
>up memory, but taking up no cpu time.
ah, the old "zombie SMTP- client process". Some msg is killing your
SMTP- processes, leaving them orphaned in memory. Eventually, Doc
Watson may make a house call, and deliveries will slow to near nothing.
>Don't see anything in the manual regarding the process
>of how IMail handles/delivers email precisely.
SMTPDaemon sees a msg in the queue and spawns an "SMTP- client"
process to pick up the msg and deliver it. SMTPD will do this for
every waitign msg until it reaches the SMTP- process limit.
If the msg is poison, the SMTP- processes go walkabout, eating up an
SMTP- count indefinitely, leaving very few, increasingly few live
SMTP- process to make progress with deliveries.
Move (not copy) all queued msg to \spool\save and reboot to kill the
SMTP- zombies, or use "kill" from reskit to kill them daid one by
one, and by process ID.
Len
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