Update...
I tried some desperate measures and got some results. I have noticed that
spam bounces typically have the 'sender' field in the spool db as null and
'real' emails have a real sender. Out of 3000 queued emails, 2600 were null
sender. So in desperation, I dumped the table to a ddl file just as backup
and deleted the 2600 null sender emails. Restarted James, and surprise, it
is now working.
OK, mail is finally going out 2 days late. That's good. But it scares the
fire out of me that I still have no clue what caused this. It wasn't just
one email. I would see it try to send one out and hang. I'd delete that
email from the spool table, restart, and it would try another one and hang.
I have saved all the logs, with debug turned on. I'd REALLY like to figure
this out so I can do something to prevent it from happening again. But I
still have no idea what happened, so I can't do anything to fix it.
It sure appears that 'something' in one or more emails brought the remote
delivery to its knees. During all of this, mail to local inboxes was being
received and processed just fine. POP was working fine, etc. Simply remote
delivery was hung.
Please help me figure this out.
Thanks.
From: "randy roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "James Users List" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: HELP!! Thousands of files stuck in spool at 'transport' state
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:37:29 -0400
sorry... in my panic i forgot the useful info... Windows server 2003, james
2.2.0.0a17
Nothing out of the ordinary in the config. Pretty basic config with
typical spam check mailets. About 40 domains are hosted. Again this has
worked for weeks since any change, and has worked for years overall.
Don't see anything wrong with the DNS. (I can get to web sites from the
browser)... Again, there are NO error messages anywhere. Every time I
restart the server, it tries one outgoing (the same one each time). It
says it can't connect to port 25 on the ip address. Tries several times,
and that's the last thing delivery attempt. Granted the IP address for the
target may be bogus (a lot of these are spam bounces...). But why would
James decide not to continue to the next outgoing email. I know for a fact
that many of the queued up emails are valid ip addresses.
From the logs it looks about about 4 emails got sent out around 5am. Why
it decided to try to send a 3 or 4 at that time and then stop is puzzling.
The previous successful send was around 11pm last night.
From: Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "James Users List" <[email protected]>
To: James Users List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: HELP!! Thousands of files stuck in spool at 'transport' state
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:23:34 +0200
What is your James version? What is your operative system? What is your
configuration?
Then a first guess: is anything happened to your DNS server?
Stefano
randy roy wrote:
About 24 hours ago, all of a sudden James stopped sending mail to remote
sites. Actually it still will trickle one or two out. But I have
thousands
of emails backed up in the spool table with the message_state of
transport.
Ive turned on debug level in the logs. Nothing. No error messages. It
simply processes through the mailet chain to RemoteDelivery, then
appears
to simply forget about it.
When I grep on the log directory for Attempting delivery, it has a
couple
of entries about 20 minutes apart. Thats it!
Ive rebooted the entire machine with no change.
I havent made any changes to James or anything else on the server in
weeks.
Help!!! Where do I look to figure out whats happening??
Thanks
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