Apparently they have been troubleshooting this issue for a while, and eventually found a bug in how it handles tabs in the host file, even though that is the expected format of the file. They thought they might have it fixed in 8.12.
Doesn't make much sense, but as soon as I replaced the tabs with spaces, my smtp server service crashes went away completely. It was dying every few minutes, and the monitor service didn't always restart it. ~Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mc Cay Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SMTPD32 - Stopping and Not restaring Automaticly Question. How did you and Ipswitch come to this conclusion with the removal of tabs in the hosts file? Curious, just trying to find out why the removal of tabs in the hosts file would resolve this issue. Thanks, jim ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Brian Fenlason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:36:36 -0400 Yes - C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on my machine... ~Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Diana Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SMTPD32 - Stopping and Not restaring Automaticly You do mean the windows host file Thank You, Sean Diana IT Department Infosynch Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Fenlason Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SMTPD32 - Stopping and Not restaring Automaticly We had lots of trouble with this same issue and after working with IPSwitch technical support, the problem was identified as being tabs in the hosts file. Try replacing any tabs in your hosts file with spaces and then bounce the SMTP server service. Let us know if it clears up your problem. It did for us... ~Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mc Cay Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] SMTPD32 - Stopping and Not restaring Automaticly Hello, I know this topic has been talked about many times before, but I'm still having an issue with Imail's SMTPD32.exe service stopping and not automaticly restarting with out human intervention. The problem all started fall of 2003 when I upgraded from 8.04 to 8.05. Then I even tried adding the two hotfixes for 8.05, but the frequency of the SMTPD32 service stopping increased. Since it appeared I never had this problem with V8.04 I down graded from V8.05 to V8.04. For a while that seem to fix the issue. Then the problem reared its ugly head again. I've tried things like, disabling all anti-spam features, taking out tabs in the HOSTS file, Defraging, and other things that don't come to mind. All of these things were recommended by Ipswitch, which I thought was still working on this issue. NOW. My question is, has any one that has these same symptoms/problems/issues, upgraded whether it's on the same server or a new server to version 8.11? If so, has the problems gone away? I'm at the end of my rope with this. Any comments, info, help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks, Jim McCay [EMAIL PROTECTED] ............................................................. 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ ............................................................. 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/ 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/
