Hello Marc,
3.4.0 is a rather old release already and is no longer actively
maintained. Numerous bug had been fixed since then.
Thus I recommend you updating to 3.7.4.
Best regards,
Benoit TELLIER
On 03/05/2023 00:34, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hello again Benoit, I will intersperse my answers within your
questions/suggestions below....
On 5/1/23 21:47, Benoit TELLIER wrote:
Hello Marc,
The Spring server is definitly not my cup of tea but I will try helping.
=> Which James release are you running exactly?
Good question! I don't see any way to get the server to report it's
exact version or other identification numbers. The cli does not
document a query for retrieving it. So the best I can report is what
the package descriptor says when I downloaded it. -
james-server-app-3.4.0-SNAPSHOT
=> Just in case provide a James thread dump when the issue arise
(jstack PID)...
I placed a copy of the output on paste.opensuse.org -
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/5888be1d6c4d
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
Um I guess I am not following you, and am not sure what you are
recommending me to do. Are you saying that the syntax I used in the
log4j.properties file is wrong? I just took a "monkey see, monkey do"
approach when I set up the log4j.properties file using the example
that was given.
Hope it helps...
It does, again thanks for helping me, much appreciated! Marc...
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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