Postfix problem

[Tony Dietrich]

I have a stock FC2 installation that have dovecot/postfix installed and 
active.

The machine is the target of the domain's MX record.

Recently, I've had the problem that any mail addressed to that system spawns a 
smtpd process, which locks.

Telnetting into smtp produced the expected responses, right up to the point 
where you send the rcpt to: line, at which point everything freezes.

There's nothing visible in any log file to point to any error.

Shelling into the system (which runs headless) and using the mail command 
works fine, but no mail actually arrives at any user's mail queue.

I suspect a postfix problem, but don't have the knowledge to know where to 
look next.

Anyone any ideas?  The machine is running the latest postfix release ... I 
updated it manually after hitting this problem, but that didn't solve 
anything.
(BTW, in case anyone is wondering, the domain has been dormant for quite a 
while, and I'm only just re-activating it, which is why I haven't spotted the 
problem before, even thought the machine has been running for months, 
apparently without any problems.  I should have realised I wasn't receiving 
the usual root emails duh!)

TD

[William Yardley]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:56:58PM +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> Recently, I've had the problem that any mail addressed to that system
> spawns a smtpd process, which locks.
>
> Telnetting into smtp produced the expected responses, right up to the
> point where you send the rcpt to: line, at which point everything
> freezes.
>
> There's nothing visible in any log file to point to any error.

There are no errors in /var/log/maillog?
> I suspect a postfix problem, but don't have the knowledge to know where to 
> look next.

What's the output of postconf -n?
What's in your master.cf file?

What's the output of "ps -ef | grep postfix"

w

Postfix problem (Solved, now more.... )

[Tony Dietrich]

On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 01:11, William Yardley wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:56:58PM +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> > Recently, I've had the problem that any mail addressed to that system
> > spawns a smtpd process, which locks.
> >
> > Telnetting into smtp produced the expected responses, right up to the
> > point where you send the rcpt to: line, at which point everything
> > freezes.
> >
> > There's nothing visible in any log file to point to any error.
>
> There are no errors in /var/log/maillog?
> > I suspect a postfix problem, but don't have the knowledge to know where
> > to look next.
>
> What's the output of postconf -n?
> What's in your master.cf file?
>
> What's the output of "ps -ef | grep postfix"
>
> w

Sorry about the delay repying.  Problem is solved.  Turned out to be a 
permissions problem on the mail spool directory.

Now all I have to do is work out how to integrate postfix and spamassassin and 
clamAV on *this* system.  Yes, I know there are loads of howto's around, but 
they expect you to be setting up a system from scratch.  This server is a 
running server, and I cannot take it out of service too long!

I have Spamassassin working fine from a system-wide procmail script which 
looks like:

/usr/bin/spamc | sendmail (parameters)

Any ideas anyone?

TD

Postfix problem (Solved, now more.... )

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:51 +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 01:11, William Yardley wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:56:58PM +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> > > Recently, I've had the problem that any mail addressed to that system
> > > spawns a smtpd process, which locks.
> > >
> > > Telnetting into smtp produced the expected responses, right up to the
> > > point where you send the rcpt to: line, at which point everything
> > > freezes.
> > >
> > > There's nothing visible in any log file to point to any error.
> >
> > There are no errors in /var/log/maillog?
> > > I suspect a postfix problem, but don't have the knowledge to know where
> > > to look next.
> >
> > What's the output of postconf -n?
> > What's in your master.cf file?
> >
> > What's the output of "ps -ef | grep postfix"
> >
> > w
>
> Sorry about the delay repying.  Problem is solved.  Turned out to be a 
> permissions problem on the mail spool directory.
>
> Now all I have to do is work out how to integrate postfix and spamassassin and 
> clamAV on *this* system.  Yes, I know there are loads of howto's around, but 
> they expect you to be setting up a system from scratch.  This server is a 
> running server, and I cannot take it out of service too long!
>
> I have Spamassassin working fine from a system-wide procmail script which 
> looks like:
>
> /usr/bin/spamc | sendmail (parameters)
>
> Any ideas anyone?

----
use MailScanner - the perfect wrapper for all of this. It will drive
ClamAV and spamassassin and make it one manageable setup.

http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/

easy rpm install...(even though you download a tarball and install via
shell).

Craig