Sat, 11 Dec 2004, by robin1.listas@tiscali.es:
The Saturday 2004-12-11 at 01:40 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
The logs would be a good place to start. Postfix doesn't just stop for the heck of it.
Mine does... has been doing so for months, since I updated to suse 9.1.
I don't see any evidence here that shows it's Postfix that borkes.
Dec 10 12:44:25 nimrodel fetchmail[6645]: smtp listener protocol error Dec 10 12:45:35 nimrodel fetchmail[6645]: smtp listener protocol error Dec 10 12:45:35 nimrodel fetchmail[6645]: SMTP connect to localhost failed [..]
Previous to this timeout, mails seem to work. This usually happen on the very first email I fetch from tiscali (and not from the two other servers I fetch before tiscali) on the first fetchmail run after my first connection of the day - but sometimes also happens later on the day.
See if you can make Postfix show more debug info main.cf debug_peer_list = 127.0.0.1 [..]
second. Could these two connections be pending for about 2'30" and hog postfix? I wonder, because around 8 emails were sucessfully downloaded after those two, and before it stops at tiscali - it only happens at the first email of tiscali, on the first run of the connection, and not every connection.
Only a good look in your logs with debug level up a few steps would show why Postfix and Fetchmail can't get along. Also; are mails stuck in any queue during this time-out? 'mailq' [snip more logs]
So... yes, postfix sometimes does stall for some non obvious reasons. The configuration was the same I had in suse 8.2, I think (I upgraded, not reinstalled).
I worked with SuSE 9.1 standard Postfix for quite some time without a problem, but I don't use POP or IMAP, only SMTP. You could try the Postfix rpm from Guillermo to see if it is the SuSE build or not. ftp://ftp.oxixares.com/pub/rpms/SuSE_9.1/ Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: gurp@nedlinux.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + MSN: twe-msn@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl See headers for PGP/GPG info. +