[Building Sakai] James email issues

[Joshua Swink]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Soo-il Kim <kimsooil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually first of all, you should not have smtp.enabled=true in
> sakai.properties if you use other SMTP server. this setting turns on
> James mail server which is built-in with Sakai distribution.
>
> SOO

What is the difference when it's turned off?


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> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Joshua Swink <joshua.swink at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We've had a few email issues and I just wanted to run them by the list
>> in case other people have dealt with the same problems.
>>
>> 1) When messages are unspooled and sent out, it tries to send them to
>> the server named in the email address rather than using our configured
>> SMTP server. In other words if the message is intended for
>> "user at ucmerced.edu" it tries to connect to ucmerced.edu port 25. This
>> does not work, obviously.
>>
>> 2) About every other message is spooled. There's no apparent reason
>> for this, and nothing in the tomcat or the james log. We're talking
>> about 1 message per minute coming in at most.
>>
>> 3) We had one incident where the incoming connections to James (from
>> our email relay servers) were piling up in CLOSE_WAIT state. After 30
>> of them piled up, it was impossible for mail to be delivered to Sakai
>> any more. The connections did not close until I restarted Sakai.
>>
>> I am going to change all of the logging in James' environment.xml to
>> DEBUG. It would be especially helpful if there were any other places
>> that debugging output could be turned on.
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Swink
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