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Re: Strange transport problem

From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson_at_nospam>
Date: Sat Nov 19 2011 - 10:20:16 GMT
To: Stefan Caunter <stef@caunter.ca>, postfix-users@cloud9.net

On Saturday 19 November 2011 08:51:16 you wrote:
> and relevant log output.

After I sent the other info I realised I hadn't done this part. Shock!
/var/log/maillog has no entry since last Monday. Looking back to Logwatch
covering Monday, I see

--------------------- Postfix Begin ------------------------

        9 Miscellaneous warnings
 
    1.841M Bytes accepted 1,930,000
    1.841M Bytes delivered 1,930,000
 ======== ================================================
 
      200 Accepted 93.46%
       14 Rejected 6.54%
 -------- ------------------------------------------------
      214 Total 100.00%
 ======== ================================================
 
       14 Reject unknown user 100.00%
 -------- ------------------------------------------------
       14 Total Rejects 100.00%
 ======== ================================================
 
      160 Connections made
        5 Connections lost
      160 Disconnections
      202 Removed from queue
      140 Delivered
       61 Sent via SMTP
        1 Forwarded
        2 Resent
 
        3 Postfix start
        3 Postfix stop
        1 Postfix waiting to terminate
 
 
 ---------------------- Postfix End -------------------------

I assume that the 14 rejects are my attempts to get creativestitching's
message out, as also is the restarting of postfix, but what about that "waiting
to terminate"? I don't recall seeing that before.

service postfix status
postfix.service - LSB: start and stop postfix
          Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix)
          Active: active (running) since Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:44:11 +0000; 4
days ago
         Process: 1202 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/postfix.service
                  â”œ 1290 /usr/libexec/postfix/master
                  â”œ 1296 qmgr -l -t fifo -u
                  â”” 7298 pickup -l -t fifo -u

Anne