Re: All incoming email going to spam folder

On 07/01/2024 11:18, Jim Smith wrote:
> James server 2.3
> My office email server was down over the holiday period, and on 
> restarting it all incoming mail is now going to a spam folder on the 
> server.
> I use fetchmail to bring in mail from various sources to james and 
> pop3 server to access the mail from james.
> I have an smtp gateway configured pointing to the mail server for an 
> externally hosted domain.
> As far as I can see, all mail coming in through fetchmail is sent to 
> spam.
> There is almost nothing in the logs. Fetchmail processing seems to be 
> normal.  The only anomaly I can see is in mailet.log
> 05/01/24 17:17:02 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: maxRetries is 
> larger than total number of attempts specified. Increasing last 
> delayTime with 19 attempts
> 05/01/24 17:17:02 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Delay of 
> 21600000 msecs is now attempted: 20 times
> 05/01/24 17:22:56 INFO  James.Mailet: ToRepository: Storing mail 
> Mail1704475375634-0 in file://var/mail/spam/
> The first 2 lines appear at startup, and the 3rd line is repeated for 
> each incoming email.
> Questions.
> 1 Any ideas what is going on?
> 2 How do I increase the logging level to help me work out what is 
> going on.
> 3 Currently, I am accessing these emails by moving them into an inbox, 
> and restarting james.   Is there any better way of doing this?
>

Thanks to Julian and Roy.   The problem was the spam blacklist.

For future reference, can someone tell me how to configure logging on 2.3?