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My server is no longer sending email and the Dr. Watson error on the server is pointing to my Sniffer file. What's going on?
This problem with Dr. Watson errors has been covered before on Declude's support list as well as Message Sniffer's support list. It's actually not SNF itself that is causing the problem, but rather an undocumented heap in Windows that can run out of space and cause the next item to load to fail with a Dr. Watson error. SNF often is listed due to the way it is called by Declude which is called by IMail.
There are some tuning parameters that can often mitigate the problem - I believe they are primarily concerned with the number of threads.
Since the "mystery heap" is not documented there is no way to directly address the issue. The problem itself is documented (worth a google on the error code) as a number of programs run into this problem from time to time.
