postfix/mailscanner: mail backs up in outoging

[Harry Hanson]

drew, i appreciate your time for helping me investigate this.

running postfix-2.1.0-1 and MailScanner-4.31.6-1

qshape.pl does not appear to be installed on this system... one of the
effects of this problem however it is takes forever to look at any of the
queue dirs in ./incoming due to the sheer volume of files.

tracking an example "hung" msg:

Jul 13 17:45:36 mx02 postfix/smtpd[29722]: 9A0C21D19C1:
client=wbar15.tmp1-4-8-060-007.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net[4.8.60.7]
Jul 13 17:46:17 mx02 postfix/cleanup[25224]: 9A0C21D19C1: hold: header
Received: from wbar15.tmp1-4-8-060-007.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net
(wbar15.tmp1-4-8-060-007.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net [4.8.60.7])??by mx02.cet.com
(Postfix) with SMTP id 9A0C21D19C1;??Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:45:31 -0 from
wbar15.tmp1-4-8-060-007.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net[4.8.60.7];
from=<ryfchtwwtqqv at tiscali.fr> to=<howard_chang at cet.com> proto=SMTP
helo=<wbar15.tmp1-4-8-060-007.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net>
Jul 13 17:46:20 mx02 postfix/cleanup[25224]: 9A0C21D19C1: hold: header
Received: (from naw58green at localhost)??by kpw31-accede4.FEK29MD.pochta.ru
(9.53.68/1.40.46) id IXJ03x9UT1460;??Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:40:29 -0500 GMT
from wbar15.tmp1-4-8-060-007.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net[4.8.60.7];
from=<ryfchtwwtqqv at tiscali.fr> to=<howard_chang at cet.com> proto=SMTP
helo=<wbar15.tmp1-4-8-060-007.tmp1.dsl-verizon.net>
Jul 13 17:46:23 mx02 postfix/cleanup[25224]: 9A0C21D19C1:
message-id=<T6TJ737-56714194320-02227494938771759845379064 at nitpick7>
Jul 13 17:47:58 mx02 MailScanner[30519]: Requeue: 9A0C21D19C1 to 048A11CEF15

logs do not show any more info on 048A11CEF15....

another:

Jul 13 23:58:51 mx02 postfix/smtpd[7461]: 93F041DA540:
client=c-24-13-108-224.client.comcast.net[24.13.108.224]
Jul 13 23:58:55 mx02 postfix/cleanup[9176]: 93F041DA540: hold: header
Received: from c-24-13-108-224.client.comcast.net
(c-24-13-108-224.client.comcast.net [24.13.108.224])??by mx02.cet.com
(Postfix) with SMTP id 93F041DA540??for <glocampo at cet.com>; Tue, 13 Jul 2004
23: from c-24-13-108-224.client.comcast.net[24.13.108.224];
from=<rahuunvjyp at canossa.com> to=<glocampo at cet.com> proto=SMTP
helo=<c-24-13-108-224.client.comcast.net>
Jul 13 23:58:57 mx02 postfix/cleanup[9176]: 93F041DA540: hold: header
Received: from meal-r2.front.gustav.mantta.fi ([145.48.6.120]) by
tks09-a7.gustav.mantta.fi with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824);?? Tue, 17
Dec 2002 07:31:15 -0500 from
c-24-13-108-224.client.comcast.net[24.13.108.224];
from=<rahuunvjyp at canossa.com> to=<glocampo at cet.com> proto=SMTP
helo=<c-24-13-108-224.client.comcast.net>
Jul 13 23:58:58 mx02 postfix/cleanup[9176]: 93F041DA540:
message-id=<2955339159794190.9068030.0615209265 at island-vu6.gustav.mantta.fi>
Jul 13 03:50:44 mx02 MailScanner[5104]: Requeue: 8541B1C1C5A to 08C721C1C05

it appears that once mailscanner reques and renumbers the messages, it
simply reamins in the /incoming dir with no further processing.. even with
the 4 day limit, i have tons of these that are several weeks old...

not sure what the "hold: header received from" indicates... ?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Marshall" <drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: postfix/mailscanner: mail backs up in outoging


> Harry Hanson wrote:
>
> >which part of the logs would you like to see? they don't tell me much,
> >
> >
> >unfortunately, which is partly why i posted here for help
> >
> Can you just cut the path of one message just to see where the delays
> are. Does this problem only affect your incoming mail or relaying to
> certain domains? Are you running Postfix 2.1.x? If so can you run
> qshape.pl script as this will give more details on your mail queues.
> More details of qshape can be found here
> http://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html
>
> Drew
>
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