Hi,
We are using James Server with an ActiveMQ master/slave configuration configured via failover: failover:(tcp://mq0.xxx:8080,tcp://mq1.xxx:8080)?jms.prefetchPolicy.all=0 When the master stops, we would expect a failover to the slave - this is working fine with other applications. However, James Server does not switch queue instance and keeps producing the following exception instead: [ERROR] - Exception caught in RemoteDelivery.run() [Remote delivery thread (3)] [j.mailetcontext] org.apache.james.queue.api.MailQueue$MailQueueException: Unable to dequeue next message (javax.jms.IllegalStateException: The Session is closed) at org.apache.james.queue.jms.JMSMailQueue.deQueue(JMSMailQueue.java:170) ~[james-server-queue-jms-3.0-beta5-20130109.104230-723.jar:3.0-beta5-SNAPSHOT] at org.apache.james.transport.mailets.RemoteDelivery.run(RemoteDelivery.java:771) ~[james-server-mailets-3.0-beta5-20130110.114225-802.jar:3.0-beta5-SNAPSHOT] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) [na:1.6.0_24] Caused by: javax.jms.IllegalStateException: The Session is closed at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQSession.checkClosed(ActiveMQSession.java:731) ~[activemq-core-5.7.0.jar:5.7.0] at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQSession.createQueue(ActiveMQSession.java:1169) ~[activemq-core-5.7.0.jar:5.7.0] at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor51.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[na:na] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:1.6.0_24] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) ~[na:1.6.0_24] at org.springframework.jms.connection.CachingConnectionFactory$CachedSessionInvocationHandler.invoke(CachingConnectionFactory.java:344) ~[spring-jms-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar:3.1.0.RELEASE] at $Proxy87.createQueue(Unknown Source) ~[na:na] at org.apache.james.queue.jms.JMSMailQueue.deQueue(JMSMailQueue.java:107) ~[james-server-queue-jms-3.0-beta5-20130109.104230-723.jar:3.0-beta5-SNAPSHOT] ... 2 common frames omitted The James Server keeps running and consumes 100% of the available CPU until it is manually restarted. Thanks for looking into this issue. Cheers, Philipp