Tim Lyth wrote: > For most of today (6th March) my email server has been temporarily > rejecting EVERY email sent through it with an error code of "432 Mail > filters temporarily unavailable". > The last successfully delivered email was at 00:37:14 March 6, 2008. > The first unsuccessfully delivered email was at 01:03:52 March 6, 2008. > ... > The system is running Debian unstable (etch??) and prior to the above > errors, `apt-get update`, `apt-get upgrade`/`apt-get dist-upgrade` was > preformed on March 4, 2008. >
My guess is that "apt-get dist-upgrade" updated your python, and the new version doesn't support whichever DBM was the default in the old version. Since Debian packages python-gdbm separately from python, I'd guess further that you don't have that package installed now. Any time you use "dist-upgrade", you should carefully check the results, and restart all of the services on your system to make sure that they continue to function. For a stable system, "dist-upgrade" is not something you should do often. The only question is: why did courier restart at 1AM? Probably a cron job of some type. > I found a defunct pythonfilter process via `top` - `filterctl stop > pythonfilter` dealt with that AND got my email working again. > Defunct means that the filter exited, and the "courierfilter" process hasn't called wait() to collect the results. As a benefit, you get to see which filter is causing your 432 errors. AFAIK, this is intentional. > Is it worth keeping this faulty files for further analysis or should I > just purge them from the system and forget about this issue that I've had? > You can use "file" on the old DBMs and the new ones to confirm (or not) that the type of DBM changed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
