Re: Symantec AV causes smtp to stop responding?

I don't have a good answer, unfortunately, other than get rid of Symantec
9 -- either upgrade (10 is available now, IIRC) or try something else like
Sophos or Trend.


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"vphan13" <vphan13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1129532431.514516.4860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have an intermittent problem with our lone Exchange server here. The
> "messages pending submission queue" will sometimes become stuck and
> grow to several thousand messages. Our AV software is Symantec 9.0, it
> is the specific client for groupware so it was installed and configured
> specifically for Exchange.
>
> I've found that when problem occurs, I can flush out the queue by
> simply stopping the Symantec Mail Security service. However this is a
> completely random and annoying issue. even worse if the queue grows to
> large it takes down the smtp service, and I get "connection reset, out
> of memory errors when attempting to telnet to port 25. When this
> happens the only resolution is to reboot the Exchange box. I've run
> some baseline perfmon on the box, and when this occurs there is no
> correlated memory or other resource spike.
>
> We are using Exchange 2003 sp1/Windows 2003 STD/ in a 2003 domain. All
> servers are patched to Sp1.
>


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