[Buildbot-devel] build email arriving a month later

[William Deegan]

Quentin,
On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Quentin Arce <qarce at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have an odd issue... it looks like the buildbot which I use has just sent out emails for failed builds from about a month ago.
> A quick look at the code I don't see how this is happening.  I know there were some issues with the builds around that time.  I just don't understand why the emails are now being sent out.  Also, I don't see a way to flush the emails out or see if there are any others waiting to be sent.
> 
> I don't think this is a mail server issue on the local box or the host I am sending the emails through.
> 
> It seems like the buildbot or twisted mail portion of the system is saving the emails somehow between restarts and not flushing them.
> 
> Lets see... I am running
> 
> Buildslave version: 0.8.6p1
> Twisted version: 12.0.0
> 
> Buildbot version: 0.8.6p1
> Twisted version: 12.0.0
> 
> Python 2.7.2


Did you check the mail server log files to see when they received and/or forwarded the emails in question?
Did you receive any failure emails at all for the last month?

-Bill
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://buildbot.net/pipermail/devel/attachments/20121127/273fa054/attachment.html>