SMTP connections timed out on EIMS 3.1.4

[Pierre Chevallier]

Hello,

i'm running EIMS 3.1.4 on MacOS 8.5 since quite some time but since
one week, i've got a big problem i can't understand :

randomly, i've got a lot of error "Incoming connections timed out from
xx.xx.xx.xx" form different IP that are valid (some are from my own
client) and with that, the incoming SMTP thread are full (i set the
maximum number to 32, but even if i increase this number, it's full
every time) and the server don't seem to get mail (the incoming mail
file on the disk doesn't grow, it stays at 4 kb)

This problem come and go randomly and i don't know what is the cause
or what solution i can set to prevent that.

For information, i've still got space on the disk (50% full) and i use
the latest filter from EIMS. Rebooting the computer when it's
happening don't seem to correct anything whatsoever....

So, anyone has an idea ?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

[David C. Stone]

In article <c4a1a39d.0309242258.640a290f@posting.google.com >, Pierre
Chevallier <pierre.chevallier@option-service.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i'm running EIMS 3.1.4 on MacOS 8.5 since quite some time but since
> one week, i've got a big problem i can't understand :
>
> randomly, i've got a lot of error "Incoming connections timed out from
> xx.xx.xx.xx" form different IP that are valid (some are from my own
> client) and with that, the incoming SMTP thread are full (i set the
> maximum number to 32, but even if i increase this number, it's full
> every time) and the server don't seem to get mail (the incoming mail
> file on the disk doesn't grow, it stays at 4 kb)
>
> This problem come and go randomly and i don't know what is the cause
> or what solution i can set to prevent that.
>
> For information, i've still got space on the disk (50% full) and i use
> the latest filter from EIMS. Rebooting the computer when it's
> happening don't seem to correct anything whatsoever....
>
> So, anyone has an idea ?

It could simply be a side-effect of the general glut of mail traffic
being generated by the latest W32 virus/trojan/worm (swen?) I had a
PC on a network I help admin get infected with this before the AV defs
caught up with the outbreak, and it absolutely hammered the local mail
server, to the point that all the SMTP connections were saturated and
other mail wasn't getting through. What I noticed about this from the
logs is that the virus/whatever was trying to dump as fast as possible
into the server - it wasn't even waiting for responses in the SMTP
canversation.

We 'ates Microsoft, we do! We 'ates it! Nasty, rotten programs!!