The status of the enabled GFI MailEssentials agents is displayed as follows: Verify that IIS Admin, SMTP, and the World Wide Web Publishing Services have all restarted. Note: Two sets of stop_snks.cmd will be present in the folders GFI\MailEssentials\Antispam and GFI\MailEssentials\EmailSecurity in the MailEssentials 2012). A greenindicator confirms that email processing is currently Enabled.Ĭlick on the Disable button and accept the prompt to restart the IIS Admin Serviceĭouble-click stop_snks.cmd file for executing instructions to unbind the sinks.
Navigate to Start > Programs > GFI MailEssentials > GFI MailEssentials Switchboard.Ĭlick on the Troubleshooting tab. The automatic way through the Switchboard is recommended. MailEssentials can be temporarily disabled and enabled in two ways. This article provides the procedure to temporarily Enable or Disable MailEssentials Processing in order to isolate issues that are suspected to be unrelated to MailEssentials.
When troubleshooting mail flow issues, it is sometimes necessary to enable/disable email processing without having to uninstall MailEssentials
