Regarding Lack Of server response:
I have had this happen to me too. This seems to
happen more often with POP. Could you verify if the SMTP access was still up
when the POP Stopped responding.
I has suspected the Connection Handler/Thread
pooling has some problem. Recently these were improved in Avalon. Maybe the
latest version of Avalon and James snapshot would alleviate this
problem.
Regarding Debug information:
There should be a server.xml in your conf
directory.
It will have entries of the type
<category name="<name>"
target="<targe>" priority="DEBUG" />
Make sure all of them are DEBUG.
Harmeet
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: A new user's experiences
Hello -
I just installed the released version of the
James mail server on my system and thought I would pass along some of my
experiences along the way and then hopefully solicit some help for a problem
that we are experiencing on our testbed system for the James
server.....
First of all, let me say I think this project is
coming along nicely and I didn't have too much difficulty in getting the basic
released version up an running on a Windows box, so you folks deserve a "Well
Done"....
Now for a couple suggestions which might
make it a bit easier for the next person.....
2. I found the configuration notes at the URL -
http://jakarta.apache.org/james/configuration.html too
difficult to fully understand... Obviously, a great deal of documentation is
still needed ;-) (hey I am a software engineer who also an appreciates the
fact that documentation is often the last thing done on a project....) So, I
just skimmed over it trying to gleam whatever useful information that I
thought might be worth noting... One simple thing that would help would be to
add a note defining what N.A. means. It is found throughout the tables under
the default values columns. I guessed and came up with two possible meanings,
"Not Available" meaning there is no default value for that particular
parameter and the integrator should be concerned about it and supply a value;
the other possible meaning I thought of is "Not Applicable" meaning the
integrator doesn't need to worry about supplying a value for that
parameter.... I wasn't sure which possible meaning was meant, so I took the
lazy approach and didn't do anything with those parameters, for now.... I
will come back to this later on, an will probably be asking further
questions...
Other than these two small hiccups, I have
managed to install the James mail server and get it up an running, for a
little while.... So here is where I need to solicit some help.... I set up a
single mail user without any difficulty, and I then configured some client
applications to work with the James server.... I then tested sending and
receiving mail with both Netscape Communicator and Microsoft's Outlook Express
and again everything worked OK.. Another client application that I set
up is a mail checker program called PopIt that checks the James
mailserver for incoming mail, for my single mail user, every 5 minutes....
This seems to run for awhile, but after a bit, the James server stops
responding to it, and from that point on, no client application works with the
James mail server.... The solution so far is to stop an restart the
server.... I did some nosing around a found the log files for the server
and browsed through them, but it wasn't too helpful.... The one clue that
appears comes from the info.log file and I have included the tail of this log
below.... So, can I get one (or more) of you James wizards to volunteer a bit
of time an help me track down what might be the problem? What should be my
next step in debugging this? Is there a way to turn on additional
debugging flags, or another way to test the server?
Marc
From the tail of info.log, except for the last
line, this pattern repeats quite a bit and I suspect it is because the
PopIt mail checker was querying the server every 5
minutes ....
2001.05.15 10:46:57 980 (DEBUG) from SocketManager: ServerSocketAcceptor on
port 110: request arrived
2001.05.15 10:46:58 040 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@29428e set by
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@29428e
2001.05.15 10:46:58 530 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@29428e resetted
2001.05.15 10:46:58 920 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@29428e resetted
2001.05.15 10:46:59 360 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@29428e resetted
2001.05.15 10:47:00 560 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@29428e removed
2001.05.15 10:51:57 990 (DEBUG) from SocketManager: ServerSocketAcceptor on
port 110: request arrived
2001.05.15 10:51:57 990 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@50a5d9 set by
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@50a5d9
2001.05.15 10:51:58 040 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@50a5d9 resetted
2001.05.15 10:51:58 040 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@50a5d9 resetted
2001.05.15 10:51:58 040 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@50a5d9 resetted
2001.05.15 10:51:58 100 (DEBUG) from TimeManager: Alarm
org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler@50a5d9 removed
2001.05.15 10:56:57 330 (ERROR) from SocketManager: Exception on port 110:
socket closed
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