Mail not getting thru

[Nuno Silva]

Paul Franklin wrote:
> The message went from my yahoo account to the offsite mail server to the 
> fetchmail on the same box as Kolab runs.  But it didn't show up in my 
> Kolab mail account until all of the messages suddenly arrived.  I'm 
> confident they were all in some kind of stasis on the Kolab box between 
> fetchmail and Kolab.

Sorry, I misread your message earlier.

Like this it just doesn't make sense to me :-)

Next time you may want to check where your messages are (my guess: in 
postfix's mailqueue. type: mailq to be sure)

Regards,
Nuno Silva


> Nuno Silva wrote:
>> 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
>>
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