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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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