zero emails

[Paul Franklin]

I should specify that although I cannot send mail even to myself, Kolab accepts it.  My local client (Thunderbird) thinks it has been sent.

--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: zero emails
To: yugm6161 at yahoo.com
Cc: kolab-users at kolab.org
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 2:58 PM

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Paul Franklin <yugm6161 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> We are getting zero emails, and unable to send any.
>
> I believe kolab has somehow gotten overwhelmed by backscatter (is that the
> right term?) which began yesterday at about 10:30 am.  Message after
message
> was coming in responding to spam supposedly sent out by us.  I wrote a
> couple of rules which worked for marking almost all the backscatter as
spam.
>
> Our spam goes into a storage folder where it stays for a week so I can
check
> for false positives.  Each night Kolab clears out the older messages in
the
> folder, at midnight, I believe.
>
> Last night shortly after midnight mail stopped coming in.  Now, as I say,
> nothing will go in or out--or even between users.  I tried
>
> /kolab/bin/openpkg rc all restart
>
> to no avail.
>
> What should I check to get a clue about what is happening and how to wake
> Kolab up again?

Can you send to yourself ?

>
> --Paul
>
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Alain Spineux
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