Hi Tom, The mail queue (msmtpqueue) is a fairly recent addition to AsLinux, previous to that, undeliverable email was simply dropped.
The status of the mail queue is shown by typing: $ msmtpqueue Every time a new email is sent the queue is flushed (tries to anyway), and should an error occur it will retry every 5 minutes. There are cases where "msmtp" returns a benign error which is not 'queue worthy' (64 for example), possibly there is another that should be added to that list. My advice is to occasionally checkin to that box, and if you get results other than... $ msmtpqueue Mail queue is empty take a look at /var/log/messages... $ grep 'msmtpqueue' /var/log/messages for clues and report back. Lonnie On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:34 AM, Tom Chadwin wrote: > Morning all > > A very minor issue I've come across is that sometimes our 0.7.2 (as was then > - 0.7.3 now) boxes stop delivering voicemail emails. I tend not to be > notified of this by users for some time, and sometimes even not at all. A > reboot of Astlinux causes all the queued messages to be delivered at once, > causing much hilarity and confusion. On occasion, I've not been told that > the emails have stopped arriving, have upgraded Astlinux, rebooted, and > suddenly all these emails have appeared. > > So far, this has only happened at remote offices. Our mail server is at our > HQ. I am guessing that the issue is that the remote Astlinux boxes have lost > contact with the mail server at some point (such as when the VPN - not > managed by Astlinux - has temporarily gone down), but the boxes have not > successfully detected that the mail server has come back up. The remote > boxes add a route to the head office subnet via rc.elocal. > > What mechanism, and perhaps what timings, does Astlinux use to detect that > the specified mail server is once more available? If I become aware that > this behaviour is ongoing again, I'll mail the list, and one of the devs can > hop onto the box if that would help. To stress, this is not at all a big > issue, but I thought it would be of interest. > > Thanks > > Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
