Email not reaching mailboxes - all mail considered "bad"

[djfrear]

We are having major problems with any external email, e.g. emails sent to us.

As they hit the GWIA they are received in the wpgate/gwia/3rd/receive/ folder as expected, then instead of being transferred to mailboxes they are being flagged as bad and moved into gwia/gwprob and changed to file.BAD

Before this we are getting a generic novell error - 8210 (Path create fail). These problems first arose after we ran out of diskspace on the mailserver (down to 0 bytes), no permissions have changed and these have been checked.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[goombawaho]

Could be a folder missing that is part of the normal GW file structure. Any chance someone could have been browsing through the folders manually and accidentally moved one where it shouldn't be or deleted it?

I'd restart the server and GW should re-create the folder. Also switch all the agents to verbose or diagnostic mode so you can get more info.

Here's another possibility if you're running 7.0

Check out a few more suggestions here:

http://www.novell.com/documentation/nwec/index.html?page=/documentation/nwec/nwec/data/hyytrqma.html

 

[goombawaho]

Oops - forgot one of the links. This sounds like your best bet if you're running 7.0

http://www.novell.com/support/searc...sliceId=&dialogID=3805888&stateId=0 0 3813276

Then, if you want to try to reprocess those bad messages, do the following:

Cut and paste them into the GWIA\RECEIVE folder

Here's a neat little document that shows you all about how messages flow withing a GW system.

http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw7/pdfdoc/gw7_tsh3/gw7_tsh3.pdf

 

[djfrear]

Thanks goombawaho - that last document may prove very helpful, I was looking for something similar yesterday.

All folders are correct and present

 

[marvhuffaker]

Usually the 3rd/receive folder is used when GWAVA is in the mix and is signified by the /smtphome-?? parameter in your gwia.cfg file.

Since Gwava puts itself in the mailflow, you also have to consider it suspect in this situation.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE
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