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Subject: biff = no and the whole thing blows up...
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtinnominate.de)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 11:05:51 CDT

Am 24.10.2000 um 15:02:51 +0200 schrieb Olivier Raginel folgendes:

> I saw your answer on some mailing-list archive about postfix, and
> maybe you can help me resolving a strange problem. I mailed you
> directly because I don't know which ML is was, and didn't want to

postfix-userspostfix.org ?

> subscribe just for a little question. If it is worse than a little
> question, I might consider subscribing, but as for now, I don't think
> it is really worth it.
>
> I'm having a notification about biff_notify :
> Oct 24 14:32:50 eureka postfix/local[7067]: warning: biff_notify: Connection refused
> Oct 24 14:32:53 eureka postfix/local[7230]: warning: biff_notify: Connection refused
> Oct 24 14:33:00 eureka postfix/local[7067]: warning: biff_notify: Connection refused
> Oct 24 14:33:00 eureka last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 24 14:34:14 eureka postfix/local[7230]: warning: biff_notify: Connection refused
> Oct 24 14:34:14 eureka last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 24 14:35:32 eureka last message repeated 7 times
> Oct 24 14:36:20 eureka last message repeated 4 times
> Oct 24 14:37:22 eureka last message repeated 6 times
>
> So I wanted to disable biff, by putting biff = no in the main.cf file.

Good idea.

> I'm running :
> 220 eureka.leshop.ch ESMTP Postfix (Snapshot-20001005)
> And when I put biff=no in the config file, I can no longer send any
> e-mail. I can still send using telnet on port 25, but with any other
> client it fails. I really cannot understand why biff would change
> anything about delivering mails, but ... If you have any clue, I would
> be glad to discuss it.

the daemon local tries to connect to the local comsat port (comsat = biff),
this would (with biff) create a new notification for new mail.

But as to why "biff = no" blows up the whole system -- I've got no clue.

Show some logs -- ! 

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