>A mail server I administer has been hanging on smtp lately. I don't >realize it until the clients start to complain. This usually happens on >Fridays around 10-11 am and then again in the afternoon at 2-3pm.
probably your peak hours? it sounds like Imail, like SMTPD and SMTP AUTH, are load-senstive, from other reports I've see here recently. > I haven't seen anything unusal in the logs but just now noticed these > ports which aren't registered as being used by IMAIL nor are they listed > as common ports. Any of you have an idea what these ports are about? that's are the ports used by the remote MTA's to contact yours >I suppose I could ask the admin at buffalo... Ask for Bill Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
