I have tried to upgrade James to a later version but keep running into problems. Plus I don't know how to migrate to a different type of repository and keep the emails in the MailDir repository intact. There are lots of old emails that I do not want to lose, in transition to a new upgraded mail server.. I am considering dropping James entirely because I desperately need a mail list server/manager also, which I last saw in James 2.3. Right now I am using Axigen to handle the mail lists but that means I have to maintain 2 different mail servers on two different machines.
Marc... On 9/8/24 13:26, Benoit TELLIER wrote:
Hello Mark Disclaimer: long outdated code, with a long removed component.... That put aside, a minor file corruption escalating into a complete outage for all users is the kind of examples of why the MailDir implementation of James had been removed. We do not have scripts to audit / fix the James maildir storage. I'd be you I'd : - 1/ backup everything - 2/ backup the postmaster user folder separatly too - 3/ RM the postmaster folder This one is likely corrupted, removing it might restore access to all users... - 4/ Maybe try to patch the maildir format for postmaster and add it back OR recreate all its folders then COPY the mails back to it.... - 5/ once the storm is over, consider an upgrade for James. I would happily help you... Good luck, Best regards, Benoit -- Best regards, Benoit TELLIER General manager of Linagora VIETNAM. Product owner for Team-Mail product. Chairman of the Apache James project. Mail:btell...@linagora.com Tel: (0033) 6 77 26 04 58 (WhatsApp, Signal) On Sep 7, 2024 11:55 PM, from Marc Chamberlin Hello, It's been awhile since I was last on this list looking for an answer to a problem! That's because my Apache James 3.4 server has been running well enough for quite awhile. But yesterday it suddenly failed and I need help to find a fix/solution. I first noticed this problem when all users, myself included, started getting errors such as what Thunderbird reports when attempting to fetch email from the imap server -The current operation on '<account folder' did not succeed. The mail server for account marc@<mydomainname>.com responded: SELECT failed. No such mailbox. Since this is happening on both Windows and Linux systems, that places my suspicions on the James server itself.Looking at the James wrapper.log file I see this error and stack walkback occurring and repeating a lot -INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | 2024-09-07 13:59:29,951 ERROR | org.apache.james.imap.processor.fetch.FetchProcessor | Fetch failed for mailbox 80f33e00-bf03-4de7-b9b5-a55c5c73262f and sequence-set [IdRange ( 1->9223372036854775807 )] INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | org.apache.james.mailbox.exception.MailboxNotFoundException: #private:Postmaster@<mydomain>.com:INBOX can not be found INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.mailbox.maildir.MaildirStore.loadMailbox(MaildirStore.java:118) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.mailbox.maildir.mail.MaildirMailboxMapper.visitUsersForMailboxList(MaildirMailboxMapper.java:287) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.mailbox.maildir.mail.MaildirMailboxMapper.list(MaildirMailboxMapper.java:256) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.mailbox.maildir.mail.MaildirMailboxMapper.findMailboxById(MaildirMailboxMapper.java:115) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.mailbox.store.StoreMailboxManager.getMailbox(StoreMailboxManager.java:291) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.SelectedMailboxImpl.getPath(SelectedMailboxImpl.java:148) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.AbstractMailboxProcessor.getSelectedMailbox(AbstractMailboxProcessor.java:414) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.fetch.FetchProcessor.doProcess(FetchProcessor.java:75) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.fetch.FetchProcessor.doProcess(FetchProcessor.java:58) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.AbstractMailboxProcessor.doProcess(AbstractMailboxProcessor.java:110) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.AbstractMailboxProcessor.process(AbstractMailboxProcessor.java:97) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.AbstractMailboxProcessor.doProcess(AbstractMailboxProcessor.java:89) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.AbstractMailboxProcessor.doProcess(AbstractMailboxProcessor.java:71) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:57) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imap.processor.base.AbstractChainedProcessor.process(AbstractChainedProcessor.java:66) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.apache.james.imapserver.netty.ImapChannelUpstreamHandler.messageReceived(ImapChannelUpstreamHandler.java:196) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:70) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:296) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.unfoldAndFireMessageReceived(FrameDecoder.java:462) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.callDecode(FrameDecoder.java:443) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.messageReceived(FrameDecoder.java:303) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:70) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.ChannelUpstreamEventRunnable.doRun(ChannelUpstreamEventRunnable.java:43) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.ChannelEventRunnable.run(ChannelEventRunnable.java:67) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor$ChildExecutor.run(OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor.java:314) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:29 | 2024-09-07 13:59:29,954 INFO | org.apache.james.metrics.logger.DefaultMetricFactory | Time spent in IMAP-FETCH: 525 ms. INFO | jvm 1 | 2024/09/07 13:59:32 | 2024-09-07 13:59:32,060 INFO | org.apache.james.metrics.logger.DefaultMetricFactory | Time spent in IMAP-IDLE: 2 ms.Looking at the mail storage on the disk, I think the directory for Postmaster is messed up -quasar:~ #ls /mail/apache-james/var/store/maildir/<mydomain>.com/Postmaster .SentAll the other storage directories for different accounts have a different set of files (but all similar to each other) This Postmaster directory seems to be missing a lot of stuff. I did run fsck.ext4 checks on the partition holding all of the mail files and it didn't find anything wrong. So how do I fix this so that the James server will be a happy camper again and fetch emails from the imap server? Is there a way to manually fix this or a script perhaps that will reconstruct damaged mail store directories? Thanks in advance for your time and help! Marc..
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