>I have IMail 6.06 server running in Win 2000 Adv >Server. I have about 6 virtual host set up to send >and receive email for 6 different domains. I had been >running this settings and environment just fine for >about 1 year. But, recently, the server's CPU often >ran into 100% usage by some of the SMTP32.EXE process. > When I looked at "Windows Task Manager", the machine >has like 19 of the SMTP32.EXE process running! It is >a virus? But I have updated my virus definition and >did a scan for all hard drives. My machine is in >critical condition now. I need to fix this problem >asap!
is mail moving normally or slowly? the smtp32 processes leave memory by themselves or stay indefinitely? if mail is moving slowly and/or the SMTP process live forever, due to the machine being 100% and memory full of SMTP32 processes, you may have a badly formatted msg in the queue that kills/zombies each SMTP process that picks it up to deliver it. move the entire spool/ directory to spool/save, and re-boot. If the machine stabilizes, move the save/ files back to spool/ in groups until one group starts to produce the zombie SMTP32 processes, in there is the bad msg. Len www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K 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/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
