problems with mail queuing up

Tue Dec 11 08:24:07 GMT 2007

Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> 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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>   
Hi There,

Although I don't use postfix but it looks like your postfix daemon is 
running already when MS starts.  Try service Postfix stop before service 
ms start....

P

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