Well Chet I'll try to give it a shot.. I believe the Q810833i.exe patch was to fix a hole 'buffer over run' exploit with the RPC locator service. The only thing I can remember is that windows xp, 2k, or nt will not run good at all if the RPC service is disabled. I've tried setting our RPC service to manual and it started every time upon reboot so I've finally changed the RPC service setting to Automatic. I've Also set the locator service to manual and it's called when ever windows needs it or perhaps a 3rd party app needs it for internal name resolution. I've also blocked the netbios ports at our border router as to prohibit any buffer overruns to the locator anyway. We don't allow netbios calls outside our network.. and nobody should, IMHO, either.
When you manually stop and restart the smtp service in imail does it chunk out email? Do you have any 'higher than normal' processor utilization on processes/appilcations during the void of not sending email? ~Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "discuss " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:07 PM - SATCOM Subject: [IMail Forum] Queue filling up, mail not being delivered after most recent MS security patches > Hi, > > I am having an issue with Imail. It has been running flawlessly > for almost a year. This past weekend I installed the most recent > patches from MS for security related issues (we run nt 4), the > last patch we installed Q810833i.EXE > > Now we have periods of no mail being delivered, not even being > logged in the sysxxxx.txt file, so I am at a loss on how to > diagnose this. I restart smtp, but then it will deliver new mail, > but old mail is delayed for hours. > > Tonight I just recently upgraded imail from 7.1 to 7.14 to see if > that would fix this issue. But we still have a giant backlog. > > We run declude junk mail. > > We seem to NOT have a traffic surge. The box seems to be running > normal, no dictionary attack etc. But right now I have 8,390 > pieces of mail in my spool (we have ~20,000 active users so we do > see decent mail volumes, but have never had this issue). > > I checked dns and the upstream dns imail points to and that seems > fine. > > So a couple of questions. I tried to search the archives for > help, but can't seem to find any, so I will post the questions > here, if you know what is going on or can help (don't worry I will > not corral you in and force you to work for me..) if you can cc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well I would appreciate it as that is on > another server and I may not see the mail here. > > The questions. > > Any idea why? Or what to look for? What logs? What to look for? > > Best way to deal with the Queue backup? Should I stop declude > while it plows through it? Can I remove some mails and slowly > feed them back in to not overwhelm the server? > > Thanks in advance. > > Chet > > ________________________________________________________________ > Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. > > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
