Hello,
I have two postfix systems which generate a lot of double bounces. I was
able to extract such an e-mail using wireshark:
220 erld671x.erlf.siemens.de ESMTP Postfix
EHLO erld604x.erlf.siemens.de
250-erld671x.erlf.siemens.de
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 104857600
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250 8BITMIME
Thomas Glanzmann:
Out: 220 erld671x.erlf.siemens.de ESMTP Postfix
In: EHLO erld603x.erlf.siemens.de
Out: 250-erld671x.erlf.siemens.de
Out: 250-PIPELINING
Out: 250-SIZE 104857600
Out: 250-VRFY
Out: 250-ETRN
Out: 250 8BITMIME
In: MAIL FROM:double-bou...@erlf.siemens.de SIZE=1191
Hello Wietse,
* Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org [090210 14:55]:
Thomas Glanzmann:
Out: 220 erld671x.erlf.siemens.de ESMTP Postfix
In: EHLO erld603x.erlf.siemens.de
Out: 250-erld671x.erlf.siemens.de
Out: 250-PIPELINING
Out: 250-SIZE 104857600
Out: 250-VRFY
Out: 250-ETRN
Thomas Glanzmann:
I still don't get why postfix sends me a soft bounce to notify me that
I'm running out of diskspace.
Have you looked at the LOGFILE?
that softbounce and so on until I'm out of resources. Shouldn't postfix
detect that this is a tempfailure and do exactly nothing and retry a
Hello Wietse,
* Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org [090210 15:11]:
I still don't get why postfix sends me a soft bounce to notify me
that I'm running out of diskspace.
Have you looked at the LOGFILE?
Not yet, but now I have and I don't like what I see:
Feb 10 01:16:14 erld603x
Thomas Glanzmann:
so what happened. erld671x is out of resources, it send an e-mail to
postmas...@erld671x.erlf.siemens.de but because it is horrible
misconfigured it sends that e-mail over its smart host which delivers it
back, which results in a tempfailure which again triggers an out of
