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Subject: RE: unknown postfix error
From: Yong,Changren (CYONGcerner.com)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 14:22:50 CST

sorry, about that. After reading your automatic reply, i posted my question
to the postfix mailling list. My Postfix configuration did not change.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: wietseporcupine.org [mailto:wietseporcupine.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 2:13 PM
To: CYONGcerner.com
Cc: wietseporcupine.org
Subject: Re: unknown postfix error

Please send questions regarding Postfix to the postfix-users list.
Meanwhile, you can think what you have changed since Postfix stopped
working. I did not change your Postfix configuration.

        Wietse

Yong,Changren:
> Hi Wietse !
>
> I started using Postfix a few months ago to replace sendmail. I have not
> had any problems until recently, when i installed something in cron to
mail
> myself every 30 minutes. My mail command is:
>
> mail cyongcerner.com <mailto:cyongcerner.com> < filename
>
> After a while, i will get errors like this in /var/log/maillog:
>
> Mar 20 14:05:54 peanut postfix/cleanup[27365]: 0BC622843: message-id=<
> 20000320200554.0BC622843ktula.com
> <mailto:20000320200554.0BC622843ktula.com> >
> Mar 20 14:05:54 peanut postfix/qmgr[27243]: 0BC622843: from=<
rootktula.com
> <mailto:rootktula.com> >, size=266 (queue active)
> Mar 20 14:05:54 peanut postfix/smtp[27367]: fatal: config variable
> inet_interfaces: host not found: localhost
> Mar 20 14:05:55 peanut postfix/qmgr[27243]: warning: mail_scan_any: got
EOF;
> expected: string
> Mar 20 14:05:55 peanut postfix/qmgr[27243]: warning: private/smtp:
malformed
> response
> Mar 20 14:05:55 peanut postfix/master[27240]: warning: process
> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 27367 exit status 1
> Mar 20 14:05:55 peanut postfix/master[27240]: warning:
> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> I tried restarting the postfix daemon but it did not help. I thought it
> could be something to do with my localhost so i did a "ifdown ifcfg-lo0",
> and then "ifup ifcfg-lo0", but that did not help either.
>
> This is the output from "postfix -n":
>
> [rootpeanut postfix]# postconf -n
> alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> command_directory = /usr/sbin
> daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
> debug_peer_level = 2
> default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10
> default_privs = nobody
> inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost
> local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
> mail_owner = postfix
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain,
> mail.$mydomain, www.$mydomain <http://www.$mydomain> , ftp.$mydomain
> mydomain = ktula.com
> myhostname = ktula.com
> mynetworks = 192.168.23.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
> myorigin = $mydomain
> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
> smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access,
> reject_unknown_sender_domain
>
> This is the output from mail.rc (i believe it's used by mail):
>
> [rootpeanut /etc]# cat mail.rc
> set ask askcc append dot save crt
> ignore Received Message-Id Resent-Message-Id Status Mail-From Return-Path
> Via
>
>
> I tried searching for the postfix errors i mentioned in the beginning of
my
> email, but the only archived i found has already been removed. If you
could
> help me with this, it would be really really wonderful !!!
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Changren Yong
>
>
>