Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Problem with email delivery on fencepost?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:39:52 -0700
> From: Bob Proulx <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Looks like some delay or another problem with emacs delivery: I was
> > sent an email almost an hour ago, which didn't arrive.
> 
> It's the weekend so I would not expect a reply from sysadmin until at
> least Monday.

Is there an alternative place to post such problems during weekends?

> But from some IRC chatter that I saw while lurking
> earlier I think that the exim logs filled up the disk on eggs
> preventing it from receiving email.  Around 2pm -0500 time it looked
> like Ian and Ruben were discussing the problem and fixing it.  So I
> think that was why the mailing lists stalled for a while today.  And
> your mail here to this list came through so things must be okay again.
> 
> > And email I sent to debbugs wasn't received by debbugs, because my
> > message was telling debbugs to close a bug report, and that bug
> > report is still open (and my email is not on the bug page).
> 
> Hmm...  debbugs is completely independent of eggs.  I don't see
> anything wrong on debbugs.  It is receiving email and sending email.

If delivery of email on eggs stopped, then my email, sent through
fencepost, would not get delivered to debbugs, right?

> Please send a message to address@hidden and ask about debbugs
> being slow to respond to email.  One of Glenn, Michael, or Noam (or
> potentially myself, but I don't know how the debbugs part operates)
> will look at the problem there.  You need one of them to debug how
> debbugs is working or not.

OK, will do next time something like this happens.

Thanks!