>I'm having a problem with iMail creating many instances of
>SMTP32.exe and then not closing them...ever. The processes then
>sit there using 100% CPU usage until i reboot the server at which
>point they almost immediatly ALL start up again.
This could be the "killer msg" pb where a badly formatted msg is
picked up by successive instances of the SMTP client process. Each
instance dies in memory, eventually no or very little mail
sent. Move (not copy) your /spool directory to
/spool/damnsoftware. Then you the res kit KILL to remove the zombies
if you're patient, or reboot if you're impatient. Now the bad msg
will be out of reach and your mail server is stable and sending again.
Then copy back to /spool groups of msgs, until the bad msg is in
/spool again. Just isolate it and kill it.
Len
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