From: Rich Morin (rdmcfcl.com)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 11:33:56 CST

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I've been getting occasional error messages of the form:

  ERR: Feb 1 08:29:58 mini postfix/smtpd[18633]:
    connect from g3po[192.168.1.211]

By way of background, "g3po" is our front-end mail server
(B&W Power Mac G3; Mac OS X 10.4.8) and 192.168.1.211 is
the correct IP address for it. It handles all incoming
mail, passing email with valid recipients on to "mini".

I've looked at mini's mail.log file and can't see any
error messages that correspond to these emailed error
messages. Can anyone tell me what kinds of problems
might generate this type of message?

On a possibly related note, g3po had an elevated load
average and was acting rather bogged down. Although
top(1) didn't show lookupd as the culprit, I decided
to do a prophylactic "killall -HUP lookupd". This
seems to have resolved the load average problem.

I'd really like to know what postfix is doing that is
causing lookupd to become a resource drain. Given that
we have hard-code our recipient lists in the postfix
configuration files, I can't understand what it should
need to look up...

-r
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