Just in case it might be useful I'm sending the mailet
log:
Just a little while ago I deleted the previous mailet
logs and restarted James. Then I looked at the log,
and saw one message go out to Yahoo ok. After that
all the log shows is attempts to send mail to hotmail.
None of my other mail is going through.
Is it possible that James gets hung on attempting to
send mail to servers that are too busy?
Here's the log:
15/10/06 13:35:02 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
maxRetries is larger than total number of attempts
specified. Increasing last delayTime with 19 attempts
15/10/06 13:35:02 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Delay of 21600000 msecs is now attempted: 20 times
15/10/06 13:35:04 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160937032151-4-to-yahoo.com to host
mx3.mail.yahoo.com. at 67.28.113.74 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:35:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Mail (Mail1160937032151-4-to-yahoo.com) sent
successfully to mx3.mail.yahoo.com. at 67.28.113.74
15/10/06 13:35:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx3.hotmail.com. at 64.4.50.179 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:36:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 64.4.50.179, port: 25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
64.4.50.179 timed out
15/10/06 13:36:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx3.hotmail.com. at 65.54.244.72 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:37:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.244.72, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.244.72 timed out
15/10/06 13:37:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx3.hotmail.com. at 65.54.245.72 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:38:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.245.72, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.245.72 timed out
15/10/06 13:38:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx3.hotmail.com. at 65.54.244.200 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:39:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.244.200, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.244.200 timed out
15/10/06 13:39:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx2.hotmail.com. at 65.54.244.168 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:40:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.244.168, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.244.168 timed out
15/10/06 13:40:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx2.hotmail.com. at 65.54.244.40 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:41:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.244.40, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.244.40 timed out
15/10/06 13:41:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx2.hotmail.com. at 65.54.190.50 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:42:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.190.50, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.190.50 timed out
15/10/06 13:42:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx2.hotmail.com. at 65.54.245.40 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:43:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.245.40, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.245.40 timed out
15/10/06 13:43:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx4.hotmail.com. at 65.54.244.104 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:44:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.244.104, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.244.104 timed out
15/10/06 13:44:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx4.hotmail.com. at 65.54.244.232 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:45:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.244.232, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.244.232 timed out
15/10/06 13:45:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx4.hotmail.com. at 65.54.245.104 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:46:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.245.104, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.245.104 timed out
15/10/06 13:46:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx4.hotmail.com. at 65.54.190.179 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
15/10/06 13:47:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.190.179, port:
25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: connection to
65.54.190.179 timed out
15/10/06 13:47:07 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery:
Attempting delivery of
Mail1160527193465-182-!572950-to-hotmail.com to host
mx1.hotmail.com. at 65.54.245.8 to addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Ole Ersoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Super - Thanks - I restarted James and noticed one
> message went out successfully to Yahoo.
>
> The puzzling thing is that I tried sending another
> one, and there's nothing in the log for it.
>
> All I see are attempts to send mail to the hotmail
> account...
>
> It almost looks like the hotmail attemps are
> blocking
> other mail from going out.
>
> I looked in james/var/mail/outgoing/
>
> and there are a lot of FileObjectStores there.
>
> I imagine these are messages and that they should
> disappear once they are sent.
>
> I'm tempted to delete all the messages files in
> outgoing to see whether it fixes anything, but I
> also
> want to isolate any possible bugs that might be
> happening.
>
> Any ideas on how to best proceed?
>
> Thanks,
> - Ole
>
> --- "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know how to go about confirming
> > > that mail sent via James actually was sent?
> >
> > The Mailet log will have messages about it having
> > been sent successfully.
> >
> > > 15/10/06 11:45:56 INFO James.Mailet:
> > RemoteDelivery:
> > > Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.245.8,
> port:
> > 25;
> > > nested exception is:
> > > java.net.ConnectException: connection to
> > 65.54.245.8 timed out
> >
> > Like that's a surprise ... eventually you should
> get
> > through. It brings a
> > wry smile to see this happening to Microsoft,
> since
> > they are the primary
> > cause of problems on the Internet. What is likely
> > happening is that their
> > servers are temporarily overwhelmed by connections
> > from the many millions of
> > MS-Windows spambots made possible by Microsoft's
> > meticulous attention to
> > security.
> >
> > It has gotten to the point where legitimate SMTP
> > connections are hidden in
> > the noise from botnets. My server and the ASF
> > servers get about the same
> > number of connection attempts per day, despite the
> > fact that mine gets less
> > than 1% of the legitimate e-mail volume of the
> ASF.
> > The botnet connects are
> > the base background noise in the network.
> >
> > We could lower spam to a fraction immediately by
> > simply requiring ISPs to
> > block port 25 from DHCP connections, and forcing
> all
> > DHCP users to go
> > through their ISP's mail relay, or though a
> VPN/ssh
> > to some other mail
> > gateway, either of which should implement
> anti-spam
> > measures.
> >
> > > INFO smtpserver: SMTP Service connection
> backlog
> > is: 5
> >
> > > Does it mean that there are five messages
> waiting
> > to go out?
> >
> > No. Please Google for information on TCP/IP
> > connection backlog.
> >
> > --- Noel
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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