>I'm in a dilemma here.
Ok, be calm now.
Carefully, slowly, (you don't want to make it mad!!) stretch your
arms up through its esophagus, out its mouth (careful about those
incisors !!), reach around and grab it firmly by the horns, and pull
yourself out! Now you have the dilemma by the horns! Works every
time for me!!
The alternative would try exit by the dilemma's queue, but the French
say that's only for Belgian peolple.
>This morning I noticed I wasn't receiving e-mail
>that is normally in my box first thing. I opened up the message queue in
>Imail and found that there were almost 4,000 messages sitting in there! I
>wasn't really sure what to do at that point and have been searching on IP
>Switch's site for information. I've got it to the point where new mail will
>send out okay, but there are still a significant number of messages waiting
>to be delivered either to users on our system or outgoing to other users.
1. Look for SMTP processes in NT memory (uh, where else?). Are there
are whole bunch, like over 30? or 40 or 80? (30 is Imail' unhacked
max. If you're over 30, then you've got zombie processes probably
zombified by a poison msg in the queue)
2. Look in the Imail logs for error for "SMTP-", those are the guys
who deliver the mail. any errors there?
If 1. applies, stop/start SMTP won't fix it, gotta reboot to shoo the
zombies out.
The queue will leave shortly after.
Len
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