I was was running into a problem where the mail probe wouldn’t start up properly.
10/16/2007 03:07:57 AM RunJava: Started lotus/notes/addins/ispy/ISpy Java task.
10/16/2007 03:08:04 AM ISpy: Initialization complete.
10/16/2007 03:08:04 AM ISpy: An error occurred creating ISpy’s mail file.: File does not exist
10/16/2007 03:08:04 AM ISpy: Mail Poller shutting down due to a fatal error.
Two factors are at play here:
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I have events setup so that each server sends a mail probe to themselves.
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I have events,stats,collect,runjava ISpy tasks set to start on all servers.
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we use a custom mail template and some of our servers didn’t have the default mail template on the server.
I noticed when comparing the domain catalog which lists all of the databases in the domain, with the mail-in databases view of the name and address book which lists all of the ISpy mail-in databases, that some servers did not have the ISpy mail-in database.
I saw the error above, and was confused.
I looked at the design template on an existing one and found that it was using the default mail template.
I copied that to all of the servers that didn’t have it and the problem went away.
