On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Toby Reiter wrote: > All, > Sometime last night something went screwy with our email. I'll > explain and hopefully one of you can help me solve this. > > I got a call this morning from my boss saying he hadn't received any > email this morning -- even SPAM (we have a spam filter, but you know > how that works). I hadn't really noticed, although in retrospect I > really didn't receive very much email either. > > So I thought -- hey, maybe somehow our SMTP server got fudged. I > restarted XMail, expecting that our backup server would soon start > sending gobs and gobs of queued messages. When that didn't happen, I > had a look at the logs. It looks like SMTP was working all night, > but smail stopped working around 10:50 last night (and it never came > back until I restarted the server this morning at 10:00 am). > > Now here's the million dollar question -- where is all of the email? > I tried checking the spool, but I didn't get a large enough message > count that this would be where the files exist (I don't think). > > Any help GREATLY appreciate. I really hope all this email isn't toasted.
XMail version? Linux kernel version? Which distro? Glibc version? UP or SMP? Any filters? Was messages logged with RECV=OK inside the SMTP log? Do a cross-check using message IDs with the SMAIL log. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
