I hope a SME expert can help me here. My mail server suddenly stopped processing the delivery of local emails. My internal users can send out mail, and external recipients get the mail, however, no one can receive mail. If a local user sends mail to another local user, the recipient does not get the mail. No one receives any error messages.
Everything was working fine yesterday. The problem began sometime last night.
Checking the mail log analysis - status of of the queue, shows 500+ (and growing) messages in the local queue, and none in the remote queue.
This was version 7.4. When I noticed the problem do to not getting any mail overnight, I checked if there were updates, and of course, 7.5 was available. So I installed that hoping it would cure the problem. No luck.
Next I installed qmHandle and ran the program to force delivery of the queue. When run from the command line, (qmHandle -a), there is no return message. Run from the Server manager panel, an error is returned saying that qmail is not running. Running /etc/init.d/qmail restart says OK, but the problem continues.
Please help! Does anyone have any idea what to do? This just came out of the blue - no changes were made to the system until after the problem started, and nothing so far is working. I'm at a loss.
If I can't fix this in the next few hours, I'm just going to have to re-install. Arggh! I thought that only happened in Windows!
Thanks for your help in advance.