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- From: ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey)
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Mail SMTP Gateway
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.035253.19293@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan11.052748.7699@timesink.chi.il.us> <1993Jan21.040804.24532@netcom.com> <1993Jan22.055752.6255@frcs.Alt.ZA>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:52:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.055752.6255@frcs.Alt.ZA> paul@frcs.Alt.ZA (Paul Nash) writes:
- >ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey) writes:
- >
- >> We have found that our SMTP gateway stays up for about a day at a time
- >> before the MM program freezes (interestingly enough the machine usually
- >> can still be pinged while the gateway program is frozen).
- >
- >I have seen this as well (a _lot_). A client's gateway (which handles
- >a lot of traffic, ~500 messages/day) used to freeze in much the same way
- >after ~1 hour. We replaced the hardware with a solid 33MHz 386, two
- >SMC cards, etc, and pushed up the MTBF to ~4 hours. We now have a
- >TSR that reboots the machine every hour :-). Kludgey, but it's all
- >that we can do, until MS fix their mailer (or I can persuade their
- >PtBs to trash MS-Mail -- a far better option, although logistically
- >difficult with some 30-odd mailboxes and 5-6000 users).
-
- I reported a week ago that we had been having problems with our
- gateway freezing every day or so. Well, since then, we reconfigured
- our gateway to give it more DOS memory for the SMTP gateway program
- and things have improved dramatically since.
-
- Before, we used to have about 400K of DOS memory before running the
- SMTP gateway program. I re-organized things and we now have about 500K
- of DOS memory. Since this change, we haven't had a freeze yet.
-
- Maybe this is the cause of other people's MS Mail SMTP gateway problems?
-
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