Good Morning to all, especially those burning the midnite oil!
This evening I caught my qmail/vpopmail server not doing it's job. I would
like to keep it from happening in the future, and to help fill in some blank
spots as to what really makes this thing work.
This server runs about 10 virtual domains, but only handles maybe 20 - 100
messages per hour. Light usage, I would guess.
For about the last 30 hours or so, it appears that all incoming mail has
been accepted for my domain 'sasnak.net', and then vaporized. All other
domains mail has been delivered successfully.
All log entries show this for 'sasnak.net'
delivery 28: success: did_0+0+0/
and the messages are nowhere to be found. A search of the mailing list
caused me to look at permissions/ownerships, so I created a new domain
(test.com) and compared these things. Nothing turned up.
Out of desperation, I tried
echo to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
and the messages was delivered properly. I thought maybe tcpserver
qmail-smtp might have been causing it, but before going any further, I tried
sending myself a message via sqwebmail, and it worked. It previously had
not been working. All the incoming mail has been delivered correctly since
then.
My specific questions are these.
Where did the mail go during this time?
What caused it to start working? Not my qmail-inject, I'm sure.
How do I keep it from happening again?
Where is there more info on the "success: did_0+0+0" and "success:
did_0+0+1" log messages? I have seen a few other numbers or combinations in
here and would like to know what they mean.
As a "probably not important" footnote, I had installed BigBrother on this
server in the last two weeks, but had made no changes recently. As part of
my troubleshooting, I had rebooted the machine and had not restarted
BigBrother about one hour before this started working again.
Thank You,
Sam Laffere
Just a clip of the logs:
Mar 24 23:10:30 moe qmail: 985497030.206191 info msg 112050: bytes 289 from
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 980 uid 1008
Mar 24 23:10:30 moe qmail: 985497030.214839 starting delivery 28: msg 112050
to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 24 23:10:30 moe qmail: 985497030.215062 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Mar 24 23:10:30 moe qmail: 985497030.226354 delivery 28: success: did_0+0+0/
Mar 24 23:10:30 moe qmail: 985497030.226584 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Mar 24 23:10:30 moe qmail: 985497030.226741 end msg 112050
Mar 24 23:13:19 moe qmail: 985497199.789656 new msg 112050
Mar 24 23:13:19 moe qmail: 985497199.790402 info msg 112050: bytes 291 from
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 1021 uid 1008
Mar 24 23:13:19 moe qmail: 985497199.798631 starting delivery 29: msg 112050
to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 24 23:13:19 moe qmail: 985497199.799290 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Mar 24 23:13:19 moe qmail: 985497199.888826 delivery 29: success: did_0+0+1/
Mar 24 23:13:19 moe qmail: 985497199.889097 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Mar 24 23:13:19 moe qmail: 985497199.889254 end msg 112050
Mar 24 23:14:16 moe qmail: 985497256.084798 new msg 112050
Mar 24 23:14:16 moe qmail: 985497256.085545 info msg 112050: bytes 293 from
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 1041 uid 1008
Mar 24 23:14:16 moe qmail: 985497256.092490 starting delivery 30: msg 112050
to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 24 23:14:16 moe qmail: 985497256.092706 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Mar 24 23:14:16 moe qmail: 985497256.126467 delivery 30: success: did_0+0+0/
Mar 24 23:14:16 moe qmail: 985497256.126758 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Mar 24 23:14:16 moe qmail: 985497256.126914 end msg 112050
