Jira Service Management stops processing emails

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Problem

Jira Service Management Email Request functionality stop  working

  • No incoming mail are able to be processed
  • In Jira Administration > Applications > Email Request > Click on 'View Log',  Connectivity log and Processing log is not showing anything (empty)

The following appears in the jira-incoming-mail.log

 ERROR ServiceRunner     [c.a.s.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker] Unhandled exception thrown by job QueuedJob[jobId=com.atlassian.jira.internal.mail.services.MailPullerJobRunner,deadline=1458744697361]

Diagnosis

Diagnostic Steps

  • Incoming mail were working previously with no issue
  • There are recent database / network interruption occurs recently
  • Database restart have been done recently without shutting down Jira 

Cause

Below services are stuck due to abrupt interruption towards Jira which lead to the mails are unable to be pulled. Looking at the Scheduled Jobs, the scheduled jobs seems to hangs and is not running (by referring to 'Next Run' date, compare with the real time of the server. The next run date/time will be backdated)

  1.  com.atlassian.jira.internal.mail.services.MailProcessorJobRunner
  2.  com.atlassian.jira.internal.mail.services.MailPullerJobRunner
  3.  com.atlassian.jira.internal.mail.services.MailCleanerJobRunner

Resolution

Restart Jira to retrigger the scheduled service.

There is a corresponding feature request to allow the mail services to be restarted manually instead of restarting Jira:  JSDSERVER-5397 - Restart JIRA mail services manually


Last modified on Feb 5, 2025

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