Hello Marc,
The Spring server is definitly not my cup of tea but I will try helping.
=> Which James release are you running exactly?
=> Just in case provide a James thread dump when the issue arise
(jstack PID)...
Also moder Spring versions uses Log4J 2 , whose configuration do not
follow the syntax shown here. CF
https://github.com/apache/james-project/blob/james-project-3.7.4/server/apps/spring-app/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
Hope it helps...
Best regards,
Benoit TELLIER
On 02/05/2023 11:15, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi Benoit, and thanks a million for your reply. Yes, I have used
telnet to make a connection on both the imap and smtp ports that my
Apache James email server is listening on. I have successfully
simulated sending and receiving emails by manually typing in the
appropriate commands with lots of joy! Seems to work OK when making
telnet connections just fine.
However, what I am seeing when using Thunderbird as an email client,
is that when doing something multiple times, the connection and
commands work for a little while then things freeze up. For example,
when fetching emails from the imap service, I get a few emails and
then it hangs up. Ditto for running filters, the filters run for a
bit, move a few emails, then hangs up. I don't know what the magic is,
for getting back on track reliably, either. Sometimes restarting James
and/or Thunderbird does the trick, but more often it keeps on failing
for awhile and when I come back later it is running OK again. (again
for a little while) So I would like to see what is going on with the
imap and smtp communication layer itself to see if I can get any ideas.
I have looked at the Apache James log files also, of course, and no
joy discovering anything useful yet. One thing I do note is that only
the james-server.log and the wrapper.log files contain any
information. There are other files created, such as an imapserver.log
file, but it does not contain anything. I wonder if I have a
misconfiguration somewhere that is not allowing logging info to be
directed to these other files. I can't find any thing wrong with my
configuration files either, so for now I have set that problem aside
while I try to pursue the more serious problem of some kind of a
spotty connection issue. Maybe getting those other log files working
would provide me with the information I need to solve this?
I also see in the two log files that do contain information, exception
errors with walk-back stack traces, but those seem unrelated to what I
am doing at the time. (I get a LOT of bots doing brute force attacks
against my server and a lot of these exception errors seem to be
related to those attacks.)
I am using the Spring wiring for Apache James, and believe with log4j
logging. I will show the relevant property setting from the
log4j.properties files for the imap service. Why nothing is showing up
in the imapserver.log file is above my pay grade to grok.
log4j.appender.IMAPSERVER=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.IMAPSERVER.File=../log/imapserver.log
log4j.appender.IMAPSERVER.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.IMAPSERVER.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.IMAPSERVER.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p
%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} | %c | %m%n
... more stuff not shown here
log4j.logger.james=DEBUG, CONS, FILE
log4j.logger=DEBUG, CONS, FILE
... more stuff not shown here
log4j.logger.james.imapserver=DEBUG, IMAPSERVER
HTH... Marc
On 5/1/23 08:14, Benoit TELLIER wrote:
Hello Mark
-> James should output error logs. Be it logback for Guice or Log4J
for spring
-> Our arsenal also have awesome metrics integrated wit Prometheux
stack (guice only) or in logs
For your case, have you tried some commands yourself in telnet? I
suspect a connection problem, for instance firewall...
Best regards,
Benoit
On 01/05/2023 00:19, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hello, After doing a bit or reorganization of where the location of
installation files for Apache James, and or some updates I received
from Linux OpenSuSE 15.3 x64, something broke and I am now
experiencing some behavioral issues with my Thunderbird client -
Thunderbird - version 91.11.0 (64-bit)
Apache James - version 3.4
For example, I cannot seem to move some emails out of my Inbox
folder, and put them in another sub-folder. I don't see any error
messages, either from Thunderbird itself, nor in any of the log
files from the Apache James server. And the moved emails do
disappears from the Inbox folder temporarily only to reappear back
in the Inbox folder a little later. Another symptom that has show up
is Thunderbird keeps reporting that it cannot save a copy of my
draft emails while I am composing it.
So my question is, what is the best way to monitor the IMAP protocol
communication that is going on between my Thunderbird email client,
and the Apache James server? Can I capture it via the log files for
Apache James or must I learn how to use a low level network monitor
such as Wireshark? If the latter, are there any gurus around to show
me how to capture just the IMAP communication?
As always, much appreciate any thoughts and advise and thanks for
taking the time to help me! Marc C
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