I've noticed the same behavior over the last 3 days or so. I switched my
syslogd's on my postfix servers to log to a central server, are you doing
this also? I'm wondering if maybe syslog is losing some log entries. I'm
running 20010808.

Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vlad Marchenko [mailto:mvsumdu.edu.ua]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:06 AM
> To: postfix-userspostfix.org
> Subject: losing emails or lines in maillog ??
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Have a problem. I'm submitting newslist to postfix via smtp
> with 1000 recipients per each email. We have special script
> that analyze maillog to collect stats of how many emails were
> delivered/bounced/deferred/... for each newsmail to the
> newslist. I've noticed that if total number of subscribers
> submited is, lets say, one million (1000 emails with 1000
> recipients in each), number of delivery records in the
> maillog is much less than that, even if postfix says that
> there is nothing in the queue anymore. Like for 1000
> recipients of messages with ID=1234567890A, there are only ~
> 500-700 records that mention this ID!! Where is the rest of
> messages gone at? Postfix lost email? Postfix didn't log this
> to syslogd carefuly? Or, maybe, syslogd lost lines (some
> buffers overfill?)? Any ideas ?
>
> Reducing number of smtp processes we found that we get better
> results (means less "lost" emails per one messageID).
>
> Background: Postfix is 20011104, System is FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
> + softupdates set, syslogd doesn't flush buffers after each
> syslog() call, MAXUSER set to 1024 in kernel config. Nothing
> interesting in the /var/log/messages.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Vlad Marchenko
>
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