[COLUG] Problem Sending Mail

[William Yang]

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> I use Evolution 2.6.1 under Ubuntu Dapper for email.  Until recently,
> email has worked fine.  Lately, every once in a while (maybe two or
> three times a week), Evolution is unable to send my email and I get a
> message similar to:
> 
> RCPT TO <wxPython-users at lists.wxwidgets.org> failed: Error: queue file
> write error
> 
> I can tell Evolution to re-send and sometimes it will successfully
> resent, sometimes I get the same error message after a timeout. During
> this time, Evolution seems to be able to receive email.  Eventually, I
> can get Evolution to send the email.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea where the problem is?  Is it a problem with
> the SMPT server at my ISP (Hughes Net satellite), with my connection to
> the internet, on my workstation, or somewhere else?  

It depends.  Looks like a qmail error.  It's a problem with whatever you
use as an SMTP gateway in Evolution.  What you've described makes me
initially think that the queue may be on a mostly full disk somewhere...
 that would explain the intermitancy and the class of failures.

	-Bill
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William Yang
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