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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Posfix not processing outgoing mail
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:02:54
Message-Id: 9acccfe50510231244k662ee1d8yb7fc36502a0d3bbf@mail.gmail.com
1 Using a web mail interface for most things, I don't send much mail out on
2 this
3 machine. So, I did not notice immediately when it stopped working.
4
5 On Oct 20, my logs show a transition into inpoerability:
6
7 Oct 20 07:13:10 treat postfix/smtpd[8622]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
8 unknown[218.144.213.10 <http://218.144.213.10>]: 554 <wolfie62@×××××.com>:
9 Relay access denied; from=<snfuwbq
10 hrtvguu@×××.com> to=<wolfie62@×××××.com> proto=SMTP
11 helo=<64.166.164.49<http://64.166.164.49>
12 >
13 Oct 20 07:13:12 treat postfix/smtpd[8622]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
14 unknown[218.144.213.10 <http://218.144.213.10>]: 554 <cratchit@×××××.com>:
15 Relay access denied; from=<snfuwbq
16 hrtvguu@×××.com> to=<cratchit@×××××.com> proto=SMTP
17 helo=<64.166.164.49<http://64.166.164.49>
18 >
19 Oct 20 07:13:13 treat postfix/smtpd[8622]: disconnect from unknown[
20 218.144.213.10 <http://218.144.213.10>]
21 Oct 20 07:24:09 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
22 /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 14490 exit status 127
23 Oct 20 07:24:09 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd:
24 bad command startup -- throttling
25 Oct 20 07:25:09 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
26 /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 14598 exit status 127
27 Oct 20 07:25:09 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd:
28 bad command startup -- throttling
29 Oct 20 07:26:09 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
30 /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 14928 exit status 127
31
32 and eventually, they looked like this:
33
34 Oct 23 03:25:24 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
35 /usr/lib/postfix/qmgr pid 14341 exit status 127
36 Oct 23 03:25:24 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/qmgr:
37 bad command startup -- throttling
38 Oct 23 03:25:32 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
39 /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 14342 exit status 127
40 Oct 23 03:25:32 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd:
41 bad command startup -- throttling
42 Oct 23 03:25:48 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
43 /usr/lib/postfix/pickup pid 14343 exit status 127
44 Oct 23 03:25:48 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning:
45 /usr/lib/postfix/pickup: bad command startup -- throttling
46 Oct 23 03:25:49 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
47 /usr/lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 14344 exit status 127
48 Oct 23 03:25:49 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning:
49 /usr/lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling
50 Oct 23 03:26:24 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
51 /usr/lib/postfix/qmgr pid 14345 exit status 127
52 Oct 23 03:26:24 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/qmgr:
53 bad command startup -- throttling
54 Oct 23 03:26:32 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
55 /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 14346 exit status 127
56 Oct 23 03:26:32 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd:
57 bad command startup -- throttling
58 Oct 23 03:26:48 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
59 /usr/lib/postfix/pickup pid 14347 exit status 127
60 Oct 23 03:26:48 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning:
61 /usr/lib/postfix/pickup: bad command startup -- throttling
62 Oct 23 03:26:49 treat postfix/master[6472]: warning: process
63 /usr/lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 14348 exit status 127
64
65 And mail is not moving locally. Anybody know what I should be looking at?
66
67 All this stuff has Just Worked(TM) for so long, I have no clue about how to
68 administer Postfix.
69
70 --
71 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD