problems with mail queuing up

Tue Dec 11 07:03:27 GMT 2007

Okay, after a successful ip addressing change by the isp on friday then 
getting hit with the perl-MailTools upgrade which broke mailscanner on Friday 
and wasn't discovered until this morning, now that I've reverted mailtools as 
per

"Erick Perez" <eaperezh at gmail.com>
Subject: MailScanner version 4.65.3 and perl-MailTools-2.02-1.el4.rf HOWTO

In my case I am running 4.62.9-3, reverted mailtools and all seemed well.  
During the weekend and today, the queue got up to around 450 messages. After 
successfully starting MS, I noticed all of nothing updating in Mailwatch. 
Looking in the maillogs I see several errors, of which copious googling 
doesn't give me any fixes. Errors are

for email still sitting in the queue
(delivery temporarily suspended: unknown mail transport error)

in the maillog's I see

Dec 10 22:44:06 cyclops postfix/qmgr[7466]: warning: private/smtp socket: 
malformed response
Dec 10 22:44:06 cyclops postfix/qmgr[7466]: warning: transport smtp failure --
 see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem 
description
Dec 10 22:44:06 cyclops postfix/qmgr[7466]: CF388B340F8: to=<root at ral.bc.ca>, 
orig_to=<root>, relay=none, delay=616, status=deferred (delivery temporarily 
suspended: unknown mail transport error)
Dec 10 22:44:06 cyclops postfix/qmgr[7466]: warning: premature end-of-input 
on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name
Dec 10 22:44:06 cyclops postfix/qmgr[7466]: warning: private/smtp socket: 
malformed response
Dec 10 22:44:06 cyclops postfix/qmgr[7466]: warning: transport smtp failure --
 see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem 
description

and

Dec 10 22:53:16 cyclops postfix/smtp[9544]: warning: connect #2 to subsystem 
private/scache: Connection refused
Dec 10 22:53:16 cyclops postfix/smtp[9542]: warning: connect #2 to subsystem 
private/scache: Connection refused
Dec 10 22:53:16 cyclops postfix/smtp[9548]: warning: connect #2 to subsystem 
private/scache: Connection refused

Tried this 

tried postqueue -f
postsuper -r ALL

end result a few (maybe 10) messages leave the queue

Googling, I came across comments involving upgrading the version of postfix.

eg
(see the section - September 20, 2005
Postfix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a Dell PowerEdge 2650)

http://www.sharp-tools.net/archives/2005_09.html

This all seems to have happened in conjunction with this perl issue, so not 
sure what to make of it at this point.

Comments

I was thinking of just going to the MailScanner-4.66.4-3 beta, but the pgp 
sig is not there for this, when it downloads the sig, I get the following as 
the text of the sig file

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
    </HEAD><BODY>
    <H1>Not Found</H1>
    The requested URL /files/4/rpm/MailScanner-4.66.4-3.rpm.tar.gz.sig was not 
    found on this server.<P>
    <P>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
    error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the 
    request.
    <HR>
    <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.mailscanner.info Port 80</ADDRESS>
    </BODY></HTML>

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