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[Israel Cardenas <address@concealed>]

Hi Omen.

Finally this was the problem.

I saw that sympa.pl process died every time I restarted Sympa. But I
didn't know the reason for that.

I move all mails from "spool/msg" to another folder, and I started
moving some mails again to "spool/msg" until I found the one was
choking sympa.pl.

Thank you very much for your help. Today we will take a look to that
mail, searching for a reason of fail in it.

Israel.




2010/11/23 Omen Wild <address@concealed>:
> Quoting Israel Cardenas <address@concealed> on Tue, Nov 23 14:18:
>>
>> We have a problem with Sympa. From yesterday, it is queuing mails in
>> the "spool/msg" folder. It is not delivering mails to users, and the
>> folder is growing.
>>
>> What can be the reason?  Until yesterday, it was working perfectly.
>
> When that happens to us it is because the main process (sympa.pl)
> choked and died on a message.  What does "/etc/init.d/sympa status"
> show?  If that shows that any processes have died then stop Sympa and
> start it back up.  If the queue does not start clearing and sympa.pl
> dies again then you have one particular message that is choking Sympa.
> You have to find that message and move it out of the way before Sympa
> will work properly.  Check "spool/tmp" for any *.stderr files that
> give a clue.
>
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> Omen Wild
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