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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graham Binns wrote:
> On 24 February 2010 12:31, William Grant <wgrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 14:01 +0200, Adi Roiban wrote:
>>> În data de Ma, 23-02-2010 la 16:44 +0700, Stuart Bishop a scris:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Tim Penhey <tim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I seem to be not getting emails from EC2 any more about the success or failure
>>>>> of the test runs. (sorry for the dupe email - my touch pad is very sensitive
>>>>> and sent the other off prematurely).
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone got any ideas as to why?
>>>> I got one just a few hours ago from ec2 land so I'd investigate your
>>>> configured mail relays and spam filters.
>>>>
>>> I never received an email from ec2 script... and I know that recently
>>> Graham Binns tried to land (more than once) a branch contributed by me
>>> using ec2.
>>>
>>> Maybe there is a problem when the email should be send to non lp
>>> developers.
> 
> In Adi's case, the email was never sent to me either, though the
> branch was failing during the test run on ec2. Running ec2 test in an
> attached session with --postmortem rather than just running it
> headlessly via ec2 land resolved the problem in that case. I've yet to
> see it on any of my other branches.

I have a vague theory that it's something to do with the machine
shutting down before the mail gets off the server.  In particular, if
some mail server uses greylisting, I could imagine this happening.  In
this case, I would expect --postmortem to "fix" it.

I have no evidence for this other than it seeming to fit the facts in my
head!

Cheers,
mhw