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Re: SMTP Connections Issue...Again

From: Csillag Tamas (cstamasdigitus.itk.ppke.hu)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 08:09:13 CDT


On 09/01, Nick Powers wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback on the previous issue everyone. Same issue,
> another question: recap: I have 2 Qmail MX hosts filtering down mail
> to 1 Postfix machine running Sophos Pure Message 5.0 and then from
> there mail gets distributed to 2 Mail Servers. When I look at netstat
> for smtp connections I only see connections inbound from the 2 Qmail
> MX hosts and none to my desitnation Groupwise servers. Every so often
> when I look at netstat I see 1 or 2 connections to the Mail servers
> but something like 50-150 connections from my 2 Qmail MX hosts. Also
> the queue size on the postfix box is contiually rising. This is a
> consequence of, I believe, the fact that Postfix is not or cannot send
> to the 2 destination mail servers. I am using virtual aliasing to get
> the mail to the 2 Mail servers. Here is my postconf -n: If anybody
> has any ideas as to why postfix is sitting there continually queueing
> up and not delivering these messages I would appreciate it!!

Show the output of mailq (or part of it) and some logs.

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