Fri, 10 Dec 2004, by suse-list@justsuse.com:
Postfix only works for a few minutes. that is Mail is recieved for a short time and then Postfix stops recieving. restarting Postfix just does the same thing.
This is a SLES 9 installation running the latest Postfix, amavisd and Spamassassin. I have no clue where to start looking at this problem. During this time qpopper still works.
The logs would be a good place to start. Postfix doesn't just stop for the heck of it. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html #Look for obvious signs of trouble #Postfix logs all failed and successful deliveries to a logfile. The #file is usually called /var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail; the exact #pathname is defined in the /etc/syslog.conf file. #When Postfix does not receive or deliver mail, the first order of #business is to look for errors that prevent Postfix from working #properly: #% egrep '(warning|error|fatal|panic):' /some/log/file | more #Note: the most important message is near the BEGINNING of the #output. Error messages that come later are less useful. Usually it's something like flaky hardware, full disk(s) or a borked *.cf file. Qpopper of course has nothing to do with this. 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. +