Jira Service Management stops processing emails
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Summary
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
1
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)
com.atlassian.jira.internal.mail.services.MailProcessorJobRunner
com.atlassian.jira.internal.mail.services.MailPullerJobRunner
com.atlassian.jira.internal.mail.services.MailCleanerJobRunner

Solution
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
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