Mail services stopping frequently

Hi all;

I have a Small Business Server supporting 35 clients,
fully patched, and the mail services stop on thier own,
without warning. No pattern, no preceeding events in the
application or system logs, they just stop. Typically, it
involves the W3 service, Exchange routing, smtp, pop3,
nntp, imap, all the core Exchange services. I have all
the services set to auto- restart, but this is not
enough... when they decide to take a powder, down it
comes. They will restart manually. At one point, it was
executing a .CMD file on third failure, but it has
stopped doing that now. Any idea?

Thanks,

Troy at seabird dot ca

David
Mon Aug 11 11:23:49 CDT 2003

Hi Troy:

Sounds to me as if your Store is either too full (16GB-Standard Exchange),
your log files are not being backed-up and deleted, or something simple in
that department. We recently had one Exchange server doing exactly what you
described--in that case, it was both issues. Once the store was reduced and
the log files backed up correctly, the problem went away.

--
David M. Streb, MCSE
Exiis.Net
Full Service Network Management
http://www.exiis.net
Dave at exiis dot net
"Troy" <troy@nospam.ca> wrote in message
news:068d01c36008$89722570$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi all;
>
> I have a Small Business Server supporting 35 clients,
> fully patched, and the mail services stop on thier own,
> without warning. No pattern, no preceeding events in the
> application or system logs, they just stop. Typically, it
> involves the W3 service, Exchange routing, smtp, pop3,
> nntp, imap, all the core Exchange services. I have all
> the services set to auto- restart, but this is not
> enough... when they decide to take a powder, down it
> comes. They will restart manually. At one point, it was
> executing a .CMD file on third failure, but it has
> stopped doing that now. Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Troy at seabird dot ca