At 10:08 AM -0400 5/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] imposed structure on
a stream of electrons, yielding:
I am having a problem with my backup server. It has been working
over the years but today it won't forward the mail it has collected
to the primary server.
Short Story: Yesterday my primary server stopped listening on port
25. I checked the backup and it also was not listening on 25.
Since the backup is at my home I restarted it immediately (things
had been down for about 6 hours). The backup started immediately
collecting mail but it was marked "failed" as it came in which
doesn't make sense to me.
The logs might help explain that. If you have a very short retry
window (as determined by retry interval and count) it can look like
the messages are failing on arrival when in fact they are taking a
few minutes to do so.
I also have a vague recollection of SIMS showing messages as "failed"
when in fact they had retries left. I don't recall the details, but
you might want to try restarting SIMS with the primary reachable and
see if the queue drains on its own.
Anyway, today I started the primary in my office and cannot get the
backup to send it's mail to the primary. Does anyone know how to
force this? I hope someone is still around on this list. BTW - I
am using the latest version of SIMS (LOL).
The S.* files in the SIMS queue are plain text files consisting of
the message and its headers prefaced with lines containing the SMTP
envelope and queue state. I don't know that Stalker ever fully
documented the semantics, and I don't remember everything I used to
know about SIMS, but I THINK that you can change a terminally failed
message back into a retryable message by editing the envelope
recipient line(s) at the top starting with 'R E ' to start with 'R W '
You can make that change in bulk with BBEdit or any other tool that
can do patterned search and replace across a folder full of files.
--
Bill Cole
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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