• Hopefully this gets out..

    From Mike Dippel@954:895/2 to All on Sunday, August 24, 2025 21:33:04
    My system seems to be stuck. Mutil doesn't work at all so no messages are getting tossed. I shut the server down and made sure there were no files in the /semaphore folder. Trying mutil again with no response.

    If it doesn't go through. I'm screwed.

    Mike Dippel
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  • From Bucko@954:895/24 to Mike Dippel on Monday, August 25, 2025 18:23:39
    On 24 Aug 2025, Mike Dippel said the following...

    My system seems to be stuck. Mutil doesn't work at all so no messages
    are getting tossed. I shut the server down and made sure there were no files in the /semaphore folder. Trying mutil again with no response.

    If it doesn't go through. I'm screwed.

    Without reading the other responses Mike, when Mutil is in a stuck mode, shutdown the server, then run mis poll killbusy if there are semaphores in the outgoing folders it will kill them. I have had some issues where nothing tosses in the past, so I keep a file explorer (in my case Thunar) open in the mystic/echomail/in directory open, this way I can see if any files haven't gotten tossed. If there are files there, then I do as I said above, then run mutil mailin.ini and it tosses all of the waiting files.. Hope that helps a little...


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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to Bucko on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 13:13:20
    On 8/25/2025 6:27 PM, Bucko wrote to Mike Dippel:

    On 24 Aug 2025, Mike Dippel said the following...

    My system seems to be stuck. Mutil doesn't work at all so no messages are getting tossed. I shut the server down and made sure there were no files in the /semaphore folder. Trying mutil again with no response.

    If it doesn't go through. I'm screwed.

    Without reading the other responses Mike, when Mutil is in a stuck mode, shutdown the server, then run mis poll killbusy if there are semaphores in the
    outgoing folders it will kill them. I have had some issues where nothing tosses
    in the past, so I keep a file explorer (in my case Thunar) open in the mystic/echomail/in directory open, this way I can see if any files haven't gotten tossed. If there are files there, then I do as I said above, then run mutil mailin.ini and it tosses all of the waiting files.. Hope that helps a little...

    I was able to fix it, not by deleting the contents of the /semaphore folder but by deleting
    all contents from the /echomail folder. There were some files that would automatically
    mark the semaphore folder with a .bsy file even with the server shut down. I really
    don't remember what I did to fix it, but that was a good part of it. Perhaps your answer
    is what I should have done if it kills the echomail files that are botching things up. I will
    try that in the future if necessary.

    Thanks.

    Mike Dippel



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  • From Bucko@954:895/24 to Mike Dippel on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 20:12:45
    On 26 Aug 2025, Mike Dippel said the following...

    I was able to fix it, not by deleting the contents of the /semaphore folder but by deleting
    all contents from the /echomail folder. There were some files that would automatically
    mark the semaphore folder with a .bsy file even with the server shut
    down. I really
    don't remember what I did to fix it, but that was a good part of it. Perhaps your answer
    is what I should have done if it kills the echomail files that are botching things up. I will
    try that in the future if necessary.


    Killing the files in the /semaphore directory is a last resort for me. Once the outbound dead semaphores are cleared out it will toss everything else. Only time I kill files in the /semaphore directory is when mis.bsy gets stuck and i can't boot the system because of crash or whatnot...


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  • From Andrew Leary@954:100/1 to Mike Dippel on Thursday, August 28, 2025 06:33:05
    Hello Mike!

    24 Aug 25 21:33, you wrote to all:

    My system seems to be stuck. Mutil doesn't work at all so no messages
    are getting tossed. I shut the server down and made sure there were
    no files in the /semaphore folder. Trying mutil again with no
    response.

    If it doesn't go through. I'm screwed.

    Luckily, it at least made it out to me.

    Andrew

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