Len... could messages that are in my que but are havign problems being
delivered... as noted by deliver attempt count... be causing these zombie
SMTPs?
Anthony
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> >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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