IMC problem (Exchange 5.5, SP4)

[FOENA]

hi!

i have the following problem...

my IMC (internet mail connector) hangs every
night 1-2 times...

the reason seems to be a corrupt smtp-header

my workaround: with the w2k service recovery option,
a cmd-script deletes all the data in
c:\exchsrvr\imcdata\in and after that,
the service is restarted...
the script works fine, so its not
a great problem for me...

but my question...how i can eliminate the reason, or
how i can prevent my IMC from stopping when a mail
with an incompletely smtp header ist sent to me...

thanx, bernhard

 

[johndan]

I seem to be having the same problem...what is the script that you actually use?

 

[beckas]

I haven't seen this particular problem with the IMC's on my Exchange 5.5 SP4 servers but I did notice that the IMS service would "freeze" every once in a while. I applied a post Exchange 5.5 SP4 fix and the IMS service hasn't frozen since on either server.

It's worth a try:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;279798

 

[FOENA]

my simple "script"

del /f/q c:\exchsrvr\imcdata\in\*.*
net start "Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service" /y

that´s it -> simple but works

greetings bernhard