>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 et al, I think the problem solved itself, eventually (I started receiving mail I had expected from before). Just for history's sake: XMail 1.16, Redhat 7.2, No idea which glibc version, and I don't know what UP vs. SNP even means. :) I have SpamAssassin and AV filter with ClamAV (these are using the two standard filter scripts available) Messages were received fine all throughout the night (SMTP RECV=OK). I did a cross check on an ID (thanks for the tip, didn't know I could do this) and found a message that was received at 11:30 the night before was finally delivered today at ~10:30, after I restarted XMail. I guess in the future, I'll just try restarting the mail server and then wait for a while. In worst case scenario, where do messages being queued from SMTP reside (I didn't see them in the spool, as I said, but this could have been a fluke). Thanks again for the help. Toby -- Toby Reiter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Breezing Internet Communications http://www.breezing.com 1106 West Main St phone:434.295.2050 Charlottesville, VA 22903 fax:603.843.6931 - 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]
