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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).
 
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