I am going to attempt to answer my own questions - if someone could sanity check me I'd appreciate it:
>* Emails sent during that period of time never showed up in > /var/mail/spool or in any other repository. I suppose those messages >are lost, yes? The service() method in org.apache.james.transport.mailets.FromRepository intially sets the incoming Mail's state to GHOST. The Bounce class does the same thing. I don't recall exactly but I think I saw this in the code before and it is a way (maybe THE way) of sending mail to /dev/null. >* Can anyone explain why the FromRepository mailet affected normal mail >activity? Or was it not to blame? Based on the previous it looks like ANY incoming Mail is used merely as a trigger for the FromRepository class to execute. The triggering Mail is sacrificial and sent immediately to slaughter. While effective, this is obviously not an ideal solution and should be labelled appropriately. I hope this will serve as a warning to someone. Would anyone agree that this Mailet should really be implemented as either a one-time initialization task only or a Command? I could see this being very handy as a Command since the server could remain up. I'm fairly new to the server so I'm just assuming these concepts exist in its architecture. Also I'm not set up as a developer yet. Please correct me if I'm wrong! Thanks - Kent -----Original Message----- From: Kent Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:48 AM To: server-user@james.apache.org Subject: FromRepository mailet takes over server? Hi - We have been running James 2.3.0 for a couple months now. Recently I configured the FromRepository mailet to re-send our failed emails, which worked successfully: <mailet match="All" class="FromRepository"> <repositoryPath>file://var/mail/error</repositoryPath> <processor> transport </processor> <delete>true</delete> </mailet> However, I left the mailet configured thinking it was harmless in normal runtime. (Normal for us means mail is received via SMTP on port 25 and relayed to another server). After a day I saw entries logged in the smtpserver*.log files only, and no mailet*.log entries. Messages were getting spooled, but never removed from the spool and processed. I had to stop the server and disable the mailet which seems to have corrected the situation. I have two questions on this: * Emails sent during that period of time never showed up in /var/mail/spool or in any other repository. I suppose those messages are lost, yes? * Can anyone explain why the FromRepository mailet affected normal mail activity? Or was it not to blame? Thanks for any insight - Kent --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
