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SWA users not seeing new mail

Postby stuwatts » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:58 am

Hi all,

I'm a little stuck with this one, so I was wondering if anyone else had seen anything similar.

On a customer's Scalix 11.3 (running on SLES 9) server, we've started getting reports of SWA users not seeing new mail until they log out and back in. This issue has only been reported in the last 2 or 3 weeks. Also, sending mail is affected in the same way. Restarting scalix-tomcat fixes the issue for a while, but it soon returns.

There are some NPE's logged in scalix-swa.log that I believe relate to this issue:

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2010-02-23 12:39:15,641 ERROR [AttachmentDownloader.handleRequest:154] ip: 10.226.79.159; username: USER@DOMAIN.com; message: download_attachment: An error occurred on the server. Collect the following information and contact your e-mail administrator.java.lang.NullPointerException

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.oddpost.server.attach.AttachmentDownloader.handleRequest(AttachmentDownloader.java:97)
        at com.oddpost.server.CommonServlet.handleAttachmentDownload(CommonServlet.java:99)
        at com.oddpost.server.CommonServlet.doRequest(CommonServlet.java:51)
        at com.oddpost.server.CommonServlet.doGet(CommonServlet.java:27)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:70)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at com.oddpost.server.filter.HttpConfFilter.doFilter(HttpConfFilter.java:181)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        ... skipping the last 18 lines as irrelevant...


This strikes me as a possible IMAP issue, however the IMAP service doesn't appear to be having any issues, and the problem persists over scalix restarts. I've also run an in-depth scan on the mailstore (omscan -aAvfxe).

If anyone has any ideas, I'd be most grateful!

Cheers

echelon
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Re: SWA users not seeing new mail

Postby echelon » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:54 am

Does the user have a large number of messages in either the inbox or sent items folder? I found that can create problems. Maybe it is one bad message causing problems? Try moving 1/2 the messages into one sub folder and 1/2 into another in outlook and then try again.

The omshowlog command on scalix may also show if a bad message is responsible.


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