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Re: /path/to/smtpd : bad command startup -- throttling

From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Thu Dec 09 2004 - 13:02:05 CST

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:55:42PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:

> David A. Gershman:
> > Sorry, I don't see any other line associated with process 724. However,
> > the previous line:
> >
> > Nov 29 01:05:40 {hostname} postfix/smtpd[20750]: fatal: watchdog timeout
>
> It's taking too much time to pass the mail on from smtpd to
> the cleanup server.
>
> Do you have lots of header_checks or body_checks patterns?
>

Or a network read was blocked, despite the OS (Solaris?) promising
available data. My money is on falsely readable sockets. It would
be helpful if the OP reported the Postfix release and OS name/version:

        postconf mail_version
        uname -a

--
        Viktor.

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