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Mail Problems

If you've sent me a mail between last Thursday and now it won't have gotten to me. Chances are your server will keep re-trying and get it to me now I've fixed it. But, if you had a delivery failure in return, you'll need to re-send the mail. Sorry.

Such are the dangers of being a developer in charge of your own server. Remember me talking about my funny feeling that reverting to Internet Site document would have some adverse effect? This was it.

Last Thursday I closed Thunderbird while it was checking mail on this server. That must have left an un-opened POP3 session (or something) as it wouldn't let me re-check my mail. This has happened once or twice before and I simply reboot the server to rectify it. This is the first time I'd rebooted the entire server since turning Internet Sites on. Now that the SMTP task had restarted it must have realised there wasn't an associated Internet Site document for itself and so refused to receive mail. There's only myself to blame, but nobody told me SMTP and POP3 needed there own Internet Site documents!

If you mailed me prior to this and haven't received a reply it's for two reasons: a) It generally takes me a while to reply to non-work-related mail and b) I've been working overtime trying to get our kitchen sorted out. You can take your time with some rooms. Not so kitchens.

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    • Joe
    • Wed 22 Jun 2005 04:41

    Funny, isn't it? Had to master the beast in the process of upgrading from R5 to R6.

    BTW: what Domino release do you have? There was something broken with POP and IMAP in pre-6.5.4.

    • avatar
    • Jake Howlett
    • Wed 22 Jun 2005 04:47

    I'm still running on 6.0 Joe

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    • Joe
    • Wed 22 Jun 2005 05:46

    Then you should consider an update to the latest fix version. POP/IMAP was broken due to some CD/MIME conversion problem. My server on Linux was restarting but Win version the thread might just freeze.

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    • Steve Smillie
    • Wed 22 Jun 2005 06:18

    But Jake, I did tell you about the smtp with internet site documents. See my comment on this blog -> {Link}

    • avatar
    • Jake Howlett
    • Wed 22 Jun 2005 06:27

    Damn, drat and a big DOH!

    So there really is ONLY me to blame. That'll teach me to read comments more clearly...

  1. We still love you, Jake.

    Probably everybody stumbled across this pitfall when using internet site documents for the first time (RTFM). Some sooner, some later. :-)

    Nonetheless I still think they're pretty cool. Starting from so many settings, that used to be server wide in R5, now beeing specific to one site and ending with the fact, that you don't have to restart the http task to let changes kick in, you just do a refresh.

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