On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Toby Reiter wrote: > >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. :)
It's UniProcessor vs. SimmetricMultiProcessor. > 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). This must not happen. The next time do a 'ps aux' before restarting it. Also, you might want to try 1.18: http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.18.tar.gz - 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]
