Hi, Juan,
Thank for the link. I downloaded the latest b5 build and installed it.
I was hopeful. But unfortunately, b5 didn't fix a single problem that I
had in b4.
1) The run.bat "fail 3 out of every 4 times" problem is still present.
But I'll live with that for now.
2) I didn't yet try to see if the wrapper/service install problem is
fixed. That's not important now either
3) But the big one that has me completely dead in the water -- the SMTP
failure -- is still there. So zero progress with b5.
I just copied my customized conf files from my b4 install. I didn't
really want to start over on all of that. And I've already gone over
the conf files to see if I could find anything that might be causing
this. I figure if I started from scratch again on the confs, I just end
up with the same 'mistake' if indeed it was a mistake there. So I just
copied what I had before. If you think that's a problem, tell me.
There has been a long chain of notes in this thread. So let me
summarize the problem again.
-- IMAP works fine
-- Database works fine
-- SMTP fails with the following NullPointerException in a jmx class
every time I try to connect to SMTP (I'm using telnet from the same
machine to port 25)
INFO 09:45:22,660 | james.smtpserver | Id='30915927' User='' Connection
established from 64.34.163.186
DEBUG 09:45:22,660 | james.smtpserver | Id='30915927' User='' Unable to
process request
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.james.protocols.lib.jmx.ConnectHandlerStats.increment(ConnectHandlerStats.java:61)
at
org.apache.james.protocols.lib.jmx.AbstractConnectHandlerResultJMXMonitor.onResponse(AbstractConnectHandlerResultJMXMonitor.java:71)
at
org.apache.james.protocols.netty.BasicChannelUpstreamHandler.channelConnected(BasicChannelUpstreamHandler.java:102)
at
org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.ChannelUpstreamEventRunnable.run(ChannelUpstreamEventRunnable.java:44)
at
org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor$ChildExecutor.run(OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor.java:312)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
INFO 09:45:22,676 | james.smtpserver | Id='30915927' User='' Connection
closed for 64.34.163.186
Other errors in the log that I've eliminated as being related:
-- The malformed URL - invalid protocol "classpath" exceptions just mean
it can't find the XSDs which apparently aren't necessary since they
still aren't present.
-- The "connect refused" exception is bounded by the following two
statements:
DEBUG 09:44:33,704 |
org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean | RMI registry
access threw exception
......
INFO 09:44:33,719 |
org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean | Could not
detect RMI registry - creating new one
This apparently says it tried to find a service for RMI... it
wasn't there... so it created one. The fact that the CLI works for me
tells me that this was not really an error, rather just part of startup
processing.
------ Since it appears that none of the other exceptions are critical I
only have the one exception above that gives any info as to why SMTP is
failing. However, I noticed that the log entry for "unable to process
request" PRECEDES the exception. I guess I'll have to look into the
source file to see how close those two are. It could be that the SMTP
failure has already occurred with no logging information and this
exception has nothing to do with SMTP unable to process the request.
It sure would be nice if someone from development would talk to me here.
Jerry
On 2/26/2014 1:18 AM, Juan Larriba wrote:
Hi Jerry,
you can find the version 3 beta 5 (wich fixes A LOT of bugs from b4)
in the snapshots repository:
http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/james/james-server-app/3.0.0-beta5-SNAPSHOT/james-server-app-3.0.0-beta5-20140225.070129-369-app.zip
Please, could you test with this new version and tell us back if it
worked for you?
El 2014-02-26 07:09, Jerry M escribió:
There are 10 errors during startup referencing *.xsd files with a
completely misleading message: MalformedURLException: unknown
protocol: classpath. But it appears the error is simply that the XSDs
don't exist (at least not in the v3-beta4 build I downloaded). But
I'm assuming that these aren't critical errors. But still, if the code
expects the XSDs, why aren't they shipped in the build? I also get a
warning about the AMQPersistenceAdapter ReferenceStore is not valid --
recovering.... so I assume that isn't critical either. That's with
all of the options in log4j set to DEBUG. These messages do not show
up with the default log4j settings.
I tried setting JAMES up as a service. I get error messages that it
can't send a start command to the JVM (??). I looked that one up, and
it's been an open bug with JAMES for a couple of years (??). This
confuses me, since I assume SOMEONE is running JAMES 3 as a service
over the span of 2 years. Yet not me.... So I now just use the
run.bat command (BTW... It's on Windows Server 2008). About 3 out of
4 times when I do run.bat, JAMES immediately exits with "Unexpected
exception parsing.... spring-server.xml". Restart a few more times
and get the same error/abort each time. Then finally one time
randomly it works and starts up. Looked that error up as well.
Yup... been an open bug with JAMES for a couple of years. Also, the
'source' zip file for beta 3 has been basically empty (1 java file) at
least for 6 months. The beta 5 daily build snapshot folder doesn't
contain any bin.zip files (maybe they are somewhere else, but if so,
there's no indication as to where). I really don't know if somehow any
or all of these startup problems are indirectly causing the JMX/SMTP
exceptions. But those are all startup with immediate abort problems.
Once I can (finally) get it to start each time, there are no critical
errors occurring that I can see during startup time. Just the
critical failure each time I send an SMTP request in.
Critical bugs that have been open for 2 years; missing files in the
build, empty source zip; missing bin zips in the beta 5 build folders;
the lack of any presence of developers on this mail list.... all of
this is making me wonder if JAMES has been totally abandoned. Is
anyone minding the store at JAMES? Or if you can explain where the
real beta4 source zip and the beta5 bin zips can be found, that would
be great.
Thx.
Jerry
.
On 2/25/2014 8:30 PM, Girivaraprasad Nambari wrote:
Have you verified james-server.log and other logs just to see if any
clues
are logged while starting james? Any unusal activity there
(WARN/ERROR)?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Jerry M <techst...@malcolms.com>
wrote:
Giri,
I have no problem adding users and other commands using the CLI. That
works fine.
JAMES is running on my hosting company's leased server. I've set up an
IMAP mail account on Thunderbird on my laptop. IMAP works fine
from my
client. I can create folders on the IMAP database from my local
Thunderbird. I am trying to send from Thunderbird as well. It
fails as we
have been discussing. But Thunderbird does put the email note I'm
trying
to send into the IMAP 'sent' folder. So basically IMAP has zero
problems
that I can see at this point. Just to reduce the possible
variables, I've
tried using telneting to the SMTP port from the server itself. As
soon as
telnet tries to connect, I get an immediate "451 Unable to process
request"
which is the same message I see in the Wireshark TCP/IP trace when I'm
trying to send from Thunderbird on my laptop,. And another
exception stack
trace appears in the log each time I try to telnet.
Regarding JMX, I also was pretty sure that JMX was management. I
assumed
it might be also used for monitoring. But if it's solely
management, that
just makes it more confusing why the SMTP server has the need to
contact
JMX each time an SMTP request comes in. (And either it doesn't do
that on
IMAP requests, or it's working correctly on IMAP requests). But the
main
question is what JAMES is trying to do with JMX on an SMTP
request. I can
only assume that JAMES is trying to talk to JMX at that time since the
exception with those JMX references is thrown each time an SMTP
request
starts. (???)
Any ideas why JMX is involved in SMTP processing?
Jerry
On 2/25/2014 7:27 PM, Girivaraprasad Nambari wrote:
*Disclaimer:* I am also new to James (fixing issues after
frustrating days
of research), so my answers may be wrong too.
JMX is management API (not really monitoring API) but being used
heavily
in
monitoring applications. My understanding so far is, James using
this api
while creating accounts etc., (I think same API is being executed
while
calling -adduser from jame-cli.bat). This is my guess.
Were you able to adduser from james-cli.bat? Where is your client &
server?
Thank you,
Giri
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Jerry M <techst...@malcolms.com>
wrote:
Hi Giri,
I tried localhost and the IP. No difference. The firewall has
been off
since yesterday. I tried rebooting. Again, no change.
I haven't really programmed much with JMX. But it's a management
and
monitoring component, right? So why is the SMTP component even
trying to
talk to JMX while it is servicing an inbound request? I'm just
trying to
figure out what is going on in hopes that it might give me a clue
as to
what is wrong.
Thx
On 2/25/2014 6:43 PM, Girivaraprasad Nambari wrote:
May be try with localhost instead of IP. This is strongly
related to IP
(or) port.
If you haven't done yet, restart machine, stop firewall for during
testing
(I know you said firewall is not an issue, still I will try by
stopping
firewall).
Thank you,
Giri
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Jerry M <techst...@malcolms.com>
wrote:
Hi Phillip,
Thanks for the response and info. My jmx.properties file has
jmx.address=127.0.0.1 port=9999 (unchanged from the default
template).
I
can run the james-cli with no problem. So it looks like the
registry
is
happy with the host ip.
It's interesting that IMAP works fine, but SMTP does not. I don't
really
know what all JAMES is doing with JMX. But I would expect that
whatever
types of connections it's trying to do on SMTP that it would be
doing
the
same on IMAP. Wouldn't it?
Thanks again. But no luck with the fix that worked for you.
Any idea if there are any JAMES developers that monitor this
forum any
more?
Jerry
On 2/25/2014 5:53 PM, Phillip Odam wrote:
Hi Jerry
Your exception below looks similar to one I came across in the
last
day
and resolved.
# using the command ./james-cli.sh -h <private ip> -p 9999
listusers
Error connecting to remote JMX agent!
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: <public
ip>;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(
TCPEndpoint.java:619)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(
TCPChannel.java:216)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(
TCPChannel.java:202)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:129)
at
javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIServerImpl_Stub.newClient(
Unknown
Source)
The issue ended up being nothing to do with james, the RMI
registry
was
doing a lookup on the machines hostname to determine the IP to
advertise
for connecting to the JMX server.
To resolve this all I needed to do was make the hostname of the
machine
resolve to the private ip of the server (on the server itself)
and not
the
public (since the public ip doesn't allow JMX connections
coming in).
Then
a restart of james picked up the new IP and all resolved...
real head
spinner tho as it took quite some time to realise just what
was going
on.
Hope this helps in your investigation. Feel free to ask for more
detail
as I know I haven't gone into specifics here.
Thanks
Phillip
On 2/24/14, 10:30 PM, Jerry M wrote:
After a very long day, I got James 3 installed and almost
up and
running. IMAP is working and the database tables were
created, etc.
But I
can't get anything to work on SMTP. With default log levels,
i got
these
log entries:
INFO 21:12:13,150 | james.smtpserver | Id='9288089' User=''
Connection
established from 99.55.143.34
DEBUG 21:12:13,150 | james.smtpserver | Id='9288089' User=''
Unable
to
process request
INFO 21:12:13,166 | james.smtpserver | Id='9288089' User=''
Connection
closed for 99.55.143.34
I turned on debug level in all of the logs. And it showed an
exception
stack dump as well:
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host:
64.34.163.186;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused:
connect
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(
TCPEndpoint.java:619)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(
TCPChannel.java:216)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(
TCPChannel.java:202)
at
sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:340)
at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.list(Unknown
Source)
I have reviewed all of my configuration settings. I'm sure
I'm doing
something wrong. But this exception message tells me very
little
other
than it is refused. I'm pretty sure it's not a firewall
issue. I
can get
through to port 25 as indicated that log entries appear. It
fails
when
running telnet from my local client as well as running telnet
on the
server. And since it appears to be at the TCPIP connection
level, I
don't
think it has anything to do with SMTP authorization.
I had an earlier post about mixing v2 and v3 instances on the
same
server. I am doing that. But v2 is configured to listen
only on one
IP
address, and v3 is configured to listen on a separate IP
address (as
far as
I can tell...) v2 is still running fine. I've checked to
configurations
of both. But that doesn't mean I didn't miss something.
Can someone explain the problem or give me something else i
can look
at
that might indicate the problem?
Thanks.
Jerry
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