From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 20:07:51 CST

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Michael Nguyen:
> Hey guys, I have a question....
>
> On our dev server, I see the above error (well, the errors below) every
> couple hours. I checked the group archives, but this situation seems to be
> different because there are no errors associated with it. The server itself
> seems to be fine and never has problems delivering mail. The long entries
> are always exactly like this:
>
> Mar 1 16:50:28 m12 postfix/smtpd[16999]: fatal: watchdog timeout

Too many header/body checks rules.

        Wietse

> Mar 1 16:50:29 m12 postfix/master[21066]: warning: process
> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 16999 exit status 1
> Mar 1 16:50:29 m12 postfix/master[21066]: warning:
> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> As I said, the server is working just fine. It's a development server
> (we're testing Postfix as the MTA for the next revision of our service) and
> gets very little mail. The errors seem benign, but I wanted to know what
> was causing these messages and whether or not they should be something I
> should worry about.
>
>
> Michael
>
>
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