Mail not getting thru

[Nuno Silva]

Paul Douglas Franklin wrote:
> When I checked my mail this evening, I noticed that I don't seem to have 
> gotten mail  in the past 24 or so hours.  So I did some testing.
> My mail routes through an off-site mail server before  it comes to my 
> house.  I have fetchmail on the Kolab box configured with a cron job to 
> query the pop3 server periodically and send the mail on to Kolab.  I 
> sent a test message thru the off-site server and then manually ran 
> fetchmail.  It reported fetching one message, but the message never 
> showed up in my Kolab box.
> I do not know what logs to check - - wait.  While I was typing that last 
> sentence, the dam suddenly burst.  I got 24 hours of messages in 
> seconds.  Any ideas what would cause that?  I'd like to feel a bit more 
> in control.


I'd say the problem was your off-site mail server because first you 
received the one test message. That means that off-site server had only 
that test message in the queue to deliver.

Then, after some time, the problem was solved and mail started to flow 
as usual.

Peace,
Nuno Silva