For the past couple of weeks I hadn’t been getting any email notifications about pending comments on this blog, which is why some of them took so long to appear.
Since I tend to login to check for new comments every few hours and had also been hit pretty badly with comment and trackback spam, I didn’t think too much about it.
I logged in just now and noticed more comments in the queue again, but no emails in my inbox.
So I decided to look into it a bit further and SSHed in to check logs.
Bizarrely they were completely empty. I restarted postfix and mail began to flow again.
I suspect that I broke the mail server slightly during an upgrade, but as it doesn’t actually receive any mail I didn’t notice.
So if you weren’t getting any comment updates from here for the last while and suddenly got loads of them I apologise!
From Dr. Miek Wendell:
Had wondered why all of the sudden I received a bunch of notices as well within the last 24 hours for comments made a while back.