Email notifications are delayed or not sending due to mail server responding with temporary failures
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Problem
Outgoing email notifications in JIRA are either severely delayed or not sending at all.
The following appears in the atlassian-jira-outgoing-mail.log
ERROR [] Sending mailitem To='person@domain.atl' Subject='jira issue' From='null' FromName='Person, A' Cc='null' Bcc='null' ReplyTo='null' InReplyTo='<JIRA.350489.1498827497000@Atlassian.JIRA>' MimeType='text/html' Encoding='UTF-8' Multipart='javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart@33d7a7e5' MessageId='null' ExcludeSubjectPrefix=false' anonymous Mail Queue Service Error occurred in sending e-mail: To='person@domain.atl' Subject='jira issue' From='null' FromName='Person, A' Cc='null' Bcc='null' ReplyTo='null' InReplyTo='<JIRA.350489.1498827497000@Atlassian.JIRA>' MimeType='text/html' Encoding='UTF-8' Multipart='javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart@33d7a7e5' MessageId='null' ExcludeSubjectPrefix=false'
com.atlassian.mail.MailException: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 451 4.7.500 Server busy. Please try again later
at com.atlassian.mail.server.impl.SMTPMailServerImpl.sendWithMessageId(SMTPMailServerImpl.java:225) [atlassian-mail-2.7.18.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.mail.queue.SingleMailQueueItem.send(SingleMailQueueItem.java:44) [atlassian-mail-2.7.18.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.mail.queue.MailQueueImpl.sendBufferUnderLock(MailQueueImpl.java:103) [atlassian-mail-2.7.18.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.mail.queue.MailQueueImpl.sendBuffer(MailQueueImpl.java:56) [atlassian-mail-2.7.18.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.mail.JiraMailQueue$1.apply(JiraMailQueue.java:51) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.mail.JiraMailQueue$1.apply(JiraMailQueue.java:48) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.util.velocity.DefaultVelocityRequestContextFactory.runWithStaticBaseUrl(DefaultVelocityRequestContextFactory.java:110) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.util.DefaultBaseUrl.runWithStaticBaseUrl(DefaultBaseUrl.java:50) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.mail.JiraMailQueue.sendBuffer(JiraMailQueue.java:48) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.service.services.mail.MailQueueService.run(MailQueueService.java:21) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.service.JiraServiceContainerImpl.run(JiraServiceContainerImpl.java:61) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.runService(ServiceRunner.java:62) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.runServiceId(ServiceRunner.java:44) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.runJob(ServiceRunner.java:32) [classes/:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.runJob(JobLauncher.java:153) [atlassian-scheduler-core-1.7.0.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.launchAndBuildResponse(JobLauncher.java:118) [atlassian-scheduler-core-1.7.0.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.launch(JobLauncher.java:97) [atlassian-scheduler-core-1.7.0.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.launchJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:443) [atlassian-scheduler-caesium-1.3.3.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.executeLocalJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:410) [atlassian-scheduler-caesium-1.3.3.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.executeQueuedJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:388) [atlassian-scheduler-caesium-1.3.3.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService$1.consume(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:285) [atlassian-scheduler-caesium-1.3.3.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService$1.consume(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:282) [atlassian-scheduler-caesium-1.3.3.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.executeJob(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:65) [atlassian-scheduler-caesium-1.3.3.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.executeNextJob(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:59) [atlassian-scheduler-caesium-1.3.3.jar:?]
at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.run(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:34) [atlassian-scheduler-caesium-1.3.3.jar:?]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0_102]
Caused by: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 451 4.7.500 Server busy. Please try again later
Cause
The mail server is replying to Jira's attempts to deliver notifications with a temporary failure code, 451
Resolution
Follow up with your SMTP mail server provider to determine why the SMTP server is not accepting deliveries from JIRA
Last modified on Jan 24, 2018
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