Today we encountered a strange issue after reboot the server running roundcube webmail application. I was able to login to the webmail application over the network, read mails (I received mails) BUT was not able to send mails. The message says nothing but
'could not send mail. Please wait 76531921 seconds'.
I was clueless as the server had no issue with connecting to sendmail server, web server. No issues were detected in SELinux/iptables/network etc.All the services were OK.
Finally we checked the date and time of the server and found the date had reset to past data in 2012... This had confused the webmail service when the users try to send mails.
After reset the data to current settings, all went OK.
ntpdate -u <ntpserverip>
Moral:
There could be a totally strange reason for an issue. You need to check all possibilities without get panic.
'could not send mail. Please wait 76531921 seconds'.
I was clueless as the server had no issue with connecting to sendmail server, web server. No issues were detected in SELinux/iptables/network etc.All the services were OK.
Finally we checked the date and time of the server and found the date had reset to past data in 2012... This had confused the webmail service when the users try to send mails.
After reset the data to current settings, all went OK.
ntpdate -u <ntpserverip>
Moral:
There could be a totally strange reason for an issue. You need to check all possibilities without get panic.
