> >I send out a list of 40k.
> 
> One recipient per SMTP session, or chunks of 20 or 30 
> recipients per SMTP session?

I send 200  with 1 minute intervals-- which works for the first 5000.
I also just adjusted the smtp connections from 30 to 100-- I will see if
that will crash windows or help.

  
> The specific problem appears to be Imail queue manager, or 
> whatever it is running the Imail resource allocation show, 
> when it gets hit with big spikes of incoming mail, just like 
> you're doing.


I also put back declude.exe as the smtp, so the overflow folder is created-
which supposely helped the flow?  

But I pulled declude.exe  because it was VERY slow in putting the mail back
in spool.

Nonetheless I still have the same problems with either  declude or smtp

> Since Imail doesn't self-throttle very well and is 
> susceptible to your type of spiky traffic, I recommend you 
> throttle your sending to Imail.  Start low to establish a 
> happy baseline, and then increase until Imail starts getting stressed.

That again is hard to figure as the first 5k get sent.

Sure I can make 8 lists  of 5k each-- but that is a pain- I don't feel like
baby sitting a mailserver.



> Of course, your Imail box has to be tuned, pruned, cleaned, 
> optimized, both Imail and OS, but you've probably tried all of that.


We've done some, but all suggestions are welcome.




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