From: Hamilton Vera (hamilton.listasgmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2007 - 12:59:51 CDT

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Increase your debug, maybe we can get a tip about this, use the "-v" flag in
the master.cf.

On 7/3/07, jimbecause.org.uk <jimbecause.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I've been using Postfix/Debian (stable)for 4 years now without issue,
> until around the time of the Debian 4 update (to Postfix 2.3.8)...
> The problem - for no reason I can see, all local mail gets deferred with
> unknown transport error(log below).
> The problem remains until I reboot the server (I've tried restarting all
> the processes and that doesn't work, and they do definitely stop)
>
> Has anyone else seen anything like this (in postfix or otherwise?) - I
> suspect there's some socket issues maybe but the logs don't give a whole
> lot of clues. (done verbose logging too, which doesn't show any errors)
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Jim Potter
> Brislington Enterprise College
> UK
>
> (see last log entry- )I am wondering - 5419 is a user that has left - his
> user details have been removed but his mailbox is still there - will this
> cause problems?
>
>
>
>
> Sample bouncede message:
>
> Jul 3 06:34:58 mars postfix/qmgr[5162]: 133B5C0612B:
> to=<5559brislington.bristol.sch.uk>, relay=none, delay=0.17,
> delays=0.1/0.06/0/0, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (unknown mail transport
> error)
>
> I've followed the advice in the docs, looking for fatal/warning/panics -
> there's lots, all like this:
>
> Jul 2 19:19:22 mars postfix/smtpd[17520]: warning: premature end-of-input
> on private/proxymap socket while reading input attribute name
> Jul 2 19:19:22 mars postfix/master[5155]: warning: process
> /usr/lib/postfix/proxymap pid 15328 killed by signal 6
> Jul 2 19:19:55 mars postfix/qmgr[5162]: warning: premature end-of-input
> on private/local socket while reading input attribute name
> Jul 2 19:19:55 mars postfix/qmgr[5162]: warning: private/local socket:
> malformed response
> Jul 2 19:19:55 mars postfix/qmgr[5162]: warning: transport local failure
> -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem
> description
>
>
> Going back further I identified the first deferred email:
>
> Jul 2 19:19:55 mars postfix/qmgr[5162]: warning: premature end-of-input
> on private/local socket while reading input attribute name
> Jul 2 19:19:55 mars postfix/qmgr[5162]: warning: private/local socket:
> malformed response
> Jul 2 19:19:55 mars postfix/qmgr[5162]: warning: transport local failure
> -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem
> description
>
> Between that and the last delivered emails there are a flurry of
> mis-addressed emails:
>
> Jul 2 19:19:12 mars postfix/smtpd[17124]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
> harpo.education.bcc.lan[10.20.4.10]: 450 4.1.1 <5419because.org.uk>:
> Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table;
> from=<zodiacline.comkpowell.com> to=<5419because.org.uk> proto=ESMTP
> helo=<harpo.bristol-cyps.org.uk>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Brislington Enterprise College Mail System
>
> This e-mail and any attachements are intended solely for the use of the
> individual to whom
> it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the
> author and
> do not necessarily represent those of Brislington Enterprise College. If
> you are not
> the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in
> error and
> that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this
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>
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> sender.
>
> For information about Brislington Enterprise College, please visit
> http://www.because.org.uk
>
>
> --
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> believed to be clean.
>
>

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