problems with mail queuing up

Tue Dec 11 08:16:33 GMT 2007

Ummm... You aren't by any chance running postfix in a chroot jail are you? I've tended to see those logs when the files in the chroot jail that postfix needs haven't been updated (or if there is something else running on port 25)

If you are then try a service postfix restart and post the postfix logs at that time up here...

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Harondel J. Sibble [mailscanner at PDSCC.COM]
Sent: 11 December 2007 07:03
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Subject: problems with mail queuing up

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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    Sibble Computer Consulting
    Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user.
    help at pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com
    (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax)      (604) 686-2253 (pager)

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