Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Server Stopping

[Marcel Ayers]

Thanks for all of the replies. So far the system is back up and running without any stoppage. I found the timing of your (BKR) system stopping and mine to be quite coincidental. My system would stop once a day, as opposed to several per hour, and it started doing so around September 11. However a bad sector developed and we had to scrap the entire drive.   Since I rebuilt the IMail server it has only stopped twice. I had read other messages regarding the server stopping and the list of culprits included the NIC card and a MS SMTP server conflict. Currently, I am diagnosing the latter. It turned out that the MS service was running when viewed from the services window despite the fact that it was showing as stopped in the admin console. Since this service has been disabled the MS event log is clean. Fingers crossed and we are free and clear.     Thanks again ---Marcel We were running 8.05 a month ago and the SMTP service was stopping a couple of times an hour. Someone on the list suggested removing old files from the spool. I did and it fixed the problem immediately. There was apparently an e-mail in there that would crash the smtp service every time it tried to send it. Good Luck! Hope your problem is as easy to fix as this one turned out to be... Brian