On Tue, 14 May 2002, Leif Mortenson wrote:
> > Hi, > I have been using XMail for about a year and have been very happy > with it. > Lately, I have been using it quite a bit more often and have run into a > problem. > The machine that I am running XMail on is also being used for development. > This means that every once in a while, the machine will die and suddenly > reboot. > I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with Xmail. :-) > > I have Xmail installed as a Service on a W2k box. When the machine > starts > itself back up. Xmail is sometimes in a state where it simply eats all > mail messages > coming in. I can send test mail through when it is in this state and > the mail is > accepted by Xmail without any errors. But the mail never arrives in > the mail box or > is actually sent. I lost a weekends worth of email a bit ago. This led > me to upgrade > my version of XMail from 0.73 to 1.7 But this morning, I saw the same > problem > with this newest version. > > I checked all of the logs and nothing shows up in any of them when > XMail is in > this state. Any advice on where I should start trying to track down the > cause > of this would be greatly appreciated. > > Once I realize that the server is in this state, simply stopping and > then starting > the Xmail service seems to clear up the problem. simply lookup the smtp- log and the smail- log. look at message entered ( smtp- ) and delivered ( smail- ). did you update correctly from 0.73 to 1.7 ? did you make all changes listed inside the ChangeLog ? are you sure that when you reboot the M$ SMTP service does not run by keeping port 25 busy ( in this case the XMail service won't run ) ? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
