Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-14 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Robert Krig robert.k...@render-wahnsinn.de: On 01/13/2012 09:52 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Robert Krig robert.k...@render-wahnsinn.de: On 01/11/2012 08:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, at least

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Krig
On 01/11/2012 08:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, at least for a while. Are you using pam_mysql by chance? Yes, I am.

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-13 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Robert Krig robert.k...@render-wahnsinn.de: On 01/11/2012 08:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, at least for a while. Are you using pam_mysql by chance? Yes, I am. Too bad, pam_mysql is known to leak memory. We

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Krig
On 01/13/2012 09:52 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Robert Krig robert.k...@render-wahnsinn.de: On 01/11/2012 08:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, at least for a while. Are you using pam_mysql by chance? Yes,

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-12 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 13:11:12 Wietse Venema wrote: Robert Krig: This is just a quick heads up for people who might be experiencing similar issues. I think I might have identified the problem. Apparently in some situations SASLauthd can produce memory leaks. This is what I've gathered

RE: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-12 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Robert Krig Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:03 AM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue I think I might have identified the problem

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: I've got a weird issue on one of my postfix installations that I can't explain. My postfix setup uses MySQL as an authentication backend, and the accounts are managed via Postfixadmin. All of our webservers use phpmailer to send out registration notices to users who register

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:14:14 Wietse Venema wrote: Why do you believe that there is a problem with SASL authentication between the PHP application and Postfix? Because the only error that shows up in the log file is this: ##

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:14:14 Wietse Venema wrote: Why do you believe that there is a problem with SASL authentication between the PHP application and Postfix? Because the only error that shows up in the log file is this: ##

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:45:46 Robert Krig wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:14:14 Wietse Venema wrote: Why do you believe that there is a problem with SASL authentication between the PHP application and Postfix? Because the only error that shows up in the log file is this:

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 08:08:34 I wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:45:46 Robert Krig wrote: Whats weird is that the problem gets fixed by simply restarting the services. Try it without restarting Postfix next time, just your saslauthd and anything it needs for data (e.g.,

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 09:08:03 Wietse Venema wrote: Fortunately, the Postfix SMTP server is a short-lived process that runs for a few minutes at a time without ever changing the system configuration. Every new Postfix SMTP server process is like a new-born with a blank memory of its

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 09:08:03 Wietse Venema wrote: Fortunately, the Postfix SMTP server is a short-lived process that runs for a few minutes at a time without ever changing the system configuration. Every new Postfix SMTP server process is like a new-born with a

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 10:15:19 Wietse Venema wrote: Some accounts fail persistently, if I recall correctly. Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. Let me explain again. Our 4 webservers CONSTANTLY send registration emails to new users via a local php-mailer on each webserver instance

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 10:15:19 Wietse Venema wrote: Some accounts fail persistently, if I recall correctly. Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. Let me explain again. You have a problem that starts at some unpredictable moment, and that causes SOME ACCOUNTs to fail

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 11:38:13 Wietse Venema wrote: You have a problem that starts at some unpredictable moment, and that causes SOME ACCOUNTs to fail PERSISTENTLY after it starts. This is typical of one PERSISTENT process (like saslauthd or mysqld) having some corruption of some

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 11:38:13 Wietse Venema wrote: You have a problem that starts at some unpredictable moment, and that causes SOME ACCOUNTs to fail PERSISTENTLY after it starts. This is typical of one PERSISTENT process (like saslauthd or mysqld) having some

RE: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Gary Smith
Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, at least for a while. Are you using pam_mysql by chance?