From: mouss (usebsdfree.fr)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 18:21:11 CDT

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Flash Love wrote:
> I am running postfix2.2.8 +mysql+sasl+tls+spf and use cyrus,
> spamassassin-3.1.4, clamav-0.87, dspam-3.6.2, razor-2.82-14, pyzor-0.4.0-9,
> dcc-1.3.26-1.53, and amavis-new 2.4.2 configuration on FC4.
>
> After upgrading spamassassin and amavis-new, I immediately noticed that
> postfix's mailq began filling up with timeouts on 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]. So,
> for the past week, my single focus have been to repair changes to these two
> apps interface with postfix.
>
> As an interim hack, the only solution to flush the postqueue appeared to be an
> hourly cron that (1) postsuper -r ALL and (2) a kill and restart of amavisd.
>
> I am still not sure what is causing the timeout errors nor do I fully
> understand why the messages stayed in the queue for hours.
>
> However, I do know now that when I issue the following (between hourly crons)
> at the command line without restarting amavisd ' postsuper -r ALL; postfix
> flush' the postfix commands will flush all of the postqueue entries with
> timeout complaints that have been lingering. [I have postsuper -s and -p]
>
> This suggests to me that maybe, I should be assessing postfix, it is the only
> component complainting about timeouts. Maybe someone could explain to me why
> the postsuper and postfix flush combo seems to ignore queue's timeouts
> complaints to process the mail. Or any other pearls of wisdom that I may use
> to troubleshoot the timeout complaints.
>
> ============================================
> Original postqueue entries troubleshooting after upgrade
> ============================================
> "SPAM (in reply to end of DATA command )
>
> Note: applied Amavis patch to handle postfix's master.cf LTMP entries.
>
what patch? don't apply patches when they are not needed. amavisd
supports lmtp. and even if you don't like how it does, you can still use
smtp.
> Then maillog and postqueue entries changed to:
> =============
> /var/log/maillog
> =============
> Aug 1 07:58:08 kirk postfix/qmgr[4703]: EF1122F608E3:
> to=<flashhostname.domain.org>, relay=none, delay=1, status=deferred
> (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: read
> timeout)

make sure you have enough amavisd listeners for what you configured as
lmtp clients. this is explained in amavisd docs.

> =============
> postqueue -p
> =============
> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> EF1122F608E3 3369 Tue Aug 1 07:58:07
> users-return-00000-flash=hostname.domain.orgspamassassin.apache.org
> (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: read
> timeout) flashhostname.domain.org
>
> P.S. Maillog attachment of a timeout session was too long to send.
>
> Regards,
>
>

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