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- From: dan@innosoft.com (Daniel C. Newman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Mail delivery stopped
- Message-ID: <01GNUD2TJAMA94E9YM@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 20:19:12 GMT
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- > I noticed yesterday that I had very few network mail messages, considering all
- > the mailing lists I'm on. Also, one of our users complained that he had not
- > received Internet mail that he sent to himself from an outside site. At that
- > time the VAX had been up for about 153 days, so I figured that this was no big
- > deal. I.e., s**t happens, very large buffers eventually fill up, etc., etc.
- > So I rebooted the VAX, expecting to clear up the problem. The reboot didn't
- > help.
- >
- > I have been receiving and sending Internet, Bitnet, and HEPnet mail on a daily
- > basis from and to sites all over the world, so I had no reason to expect
- > problems with PMDF. But I noticed that PMDF_ROOT:[QUEUE.L] had over 1700 files
- > in it, so I executed the command:
- >
- > $ @pmdf_root:[exe]master L
- >
- > This caused me to get hundreds of mail messages, some dated as long ago as May
- > of this year. Apparently a large number of messages also went out over the net.
-
- At some point you lost the periodic and return jobs from your MAIL$BATCH queue.
- You should check this from time to time.
-
- > I continued to test, and messages did not get delivered unless I executed
- > MASTER.COM by hand.
-
- Sounds like the immediate delivery jobs for PMDF are dying for some reason.
- I suggest you check the log files. If there are no log files, then you'll
- have to look at the system accounting records and see what the "final status
- code" is for the batch jobs.
-
- > I then did:
- >
- > $ @sys$startup:pmdf_submit_jobs
- >
- > This caused messages to be processed, but only at the default time interval of
- > four hours. I now have this job run automatically every half hour, by setting
- > the logical name PMDF_POST_INTERVAL to 00:30:00. This is tolerable, I guess,
- > but I'm pretty sure I didn't do that before.
-
- This further confirms that something is causing the immediate delivery jobs to
- fail. Have you also checked the version numbers for the L_MASTER.LOG and
- other log files? It could be that it has reached 32,767.
-
- Note that PMDF V4.1 is a lot more robust about dealing with version number
- problems.
-
- Dan
-