<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Yeah, my daughter's cat spits them things up frequently...<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Ronald Van Putte via NSRCA-discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br><b>To: </b>"General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:42:54 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Message not going through<br><div><br></div>WOW! A "mail recursion hairball on a virtual server”. That’s one to remember.<br><div><br></div><br>> On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Tom Simes via NSRCA-discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org> wrote:<br>> <br>> On 04/21/15 06:49, Tom Simes via NSRCA-discussion wrote:<br>>> <br>>> Hi Bob,<br>>> <br>>> The message above made it - at least according to the peanut gallery ;)<br>>> <br>>> I don't see any failures or refusals from your address in the server<br>>> logs, but I'll be glad to follow up further if you can forward a bounce<br>>> message or some more information to to on.<br>>> <br>> <br>> Ha! Found it, the problem was a mail recursion hairball on a virtual<br>> server that shares the same hardware as the NSRCA list server. Due to a<br>> config error, the machine couldn't send mail but could queue it and so<br>> it proceeded to suck up 11G of disk space trying to send mail about not<br>> being able to send mail... Apologies.<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Tom<br>> <br>> ======================================================================<br>> "Z80 system stack overflow. Shut 'er down Scotty, she's<br>> sucking mud again!" - Error message on XENIX v3.0<br>> <br>> Tom Simes simestd@netexpress.com<br>> ======================================================================<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>> NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<br>> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion<br><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<br>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>