That's pretty much what I thought. It made sense to me. Thanks for your thoughts. :) -----Original Message----- From: Joshua M. Etterman [mailto:jetterman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:28 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: IMS stopped http://www.MSExchange.org/ My thoughts on this would be to say that the loop could have caused that problem. You were probably putting a lot of demand on the server with the loops. My thoughts - anyone else? -- Joshua Etterman Complete College Solutions 513 W. Chocolate Ave. Hershey, PA 17033 Phone: (717) 508-2000 Fax: (717) 508-2001 E-mail: jetterman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Elias, Delores [mailto:delias@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:03 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] IMS stopped http://www.MSExchange.org/ Yesterday afternoon one of my techs tried to set up email forwarding to an attorney's web-based account for his palm. After he set up the rule, he checked the box to run the rule on the inbox which of course proceeded to forward ALL of his mail messages. Anyway, it looks like it began this vicious cycle of sending the emails back and forth so that the user ended up with 7000+ messages in his inbox. This morning Outlook was running very slowly for our users and the IMS service had stopped which I then restarted. He finally cleaned out the users inbox and things went back to normal. My question is, would what the tech did have caused the slowness and the IMS to stop? I checked the event viewer and it stated the the IMS stopped unexpectedly and really didn't give me any more information than that. I'm curious about why this happened. We have Exch 5.5 on a NT4 box with the latest service packs. TIA Delores ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: jetterman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: delias@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') **************************************** The information supplied in this message may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, the sender does not intend delivery to you to waive any privilege or right pertaining to this message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail, and delete the errant message. Thank you. **************************************** The information supplied in this message may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, the sender does not intend delivery to you to waive any privilege or right pertaining to this message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail, and delete the errant message. Thank you.