[NSRCA-discussion] Message not going through

[Ronald Van Putte]

WOW!  A "mail recursion hairball on a virtual server”.  That’s one to remember.


> On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Tom Simes via NSRCA-discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:
> 
> On 04/21/15 06:49, Tom Simes via NSRCA-discussion wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Bob,
>> 
>> The message above made it - at least according to the peanut gallery ;)
>> 
>> I don't see any failures or refusals from your address in the server
>> logs, but I'll be glad to follow up further if you can forward a bounce
>> message or some more information to to on.
>> 
> 
> Ha!  Found it, the problem was a mail recursion hairball on a virtual
> server that shares the same hardware as the NSRCA list server.  Due to a
> config error, the machine couldn't send mail but could queue it and so
> it proceeded to suck up 11G of disk space trying to send mail about not
> being able to send mail...  Apologies.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom
> 
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> 
> Tom Simes                                       simestd at netexpress.com
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