Have seen this with messages from Outlook Express that have very many
recipients. Seems to be a bug / feature of OE 5 that if you use "," to
separate recipient email addresses it does not wrap them correctly in the
email header causing invalid length headers( it works fine with ";").
Steve
Steven Moore
Internet Development Engineer
Research Machines
+44 1235 823522
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Postmaster
> Citynet S.A.
> Sent: 12 March 2001 11:14
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP32.exe - Not Ending
>
>
> Len:
>
> Is there any additional way to recognize this killer msgs? I
> mean, do they
> have a specific format in common? Who generates them? IMail?
>
> At 14:42 12/03/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >>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.
>
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