Re: Temporary failure with Postfix and Cyrus

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Temporary failure with Postfix and Cyrus
\ Joerg Wicker (27 May 2007)
. \ Magnus Bäck (27 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Temporary failure with Postfix and Cyrus
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Magnus Bäck
Date:	27 May 2007

On Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 14:01 CEST,
Joerg Wicker <jw> wrote:

> a friend of mine asked me to look at his mail server as he is on
> holiday at the moment. The users don't receive emails at the moment,
> postfix returns temporary failure when trying to deliver. He told me
> everything worked correctly until cyrus went out of disk space. This
> seems to happen frequently on this server, a new server is already
> ordered. He cleaned up the disk and restarted postfix and cyrus but
> this time the mails are not delievered any more. Postfix says "mail
> deferred" and "temporary failure". I searched the last few days but
> couln't find anything that helped.
>
> Below are the log messages and configuration. Hope I didn't forget
> anything. Any ideas?

[...]

> May 24 09:35:38 cleopatra postfix/qmgr[9550]: C23486D6:
> from=<abc>, size=11516, nrcpt=1 (queue
> active)
> May 24 09:35:38 cleopatra postfix/pipe[9580]: AC50E620:
> to=<abc>, relay=cyrus, delay=141980,
> status=deferred (temporary failure)

In this case Postfix is just the messenger, and the message is that the
Cyrus deliver process returned a temporary exit status. Unless the Cyrus
logs down contain any interesting information, try invoking deliver from
the shell and see what happens. If it still fails, try running it under
a debugger etc. I'd start with strace/truss/ktrace and see if there's
any failing system call just before it calls exit().

[...]

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Magnus Bäck
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