Paul J Stevens wrote:
timsieved is *not* involved in delivery at all, so it doesn't matter one way or the other.Possibly some delivery target is failing, which is causing the message to stay in the queue. without some relevant information from the logs it's impossible to say.
I'm sorry to be dribbling out the information piecemall, but here is some more: I'm getting errors like this on the console: serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed serverchild.c,CreateChild: child_register failed This was after I killed and restarted dbmail-lmtp and then did a postfix flush to have the stuff in the queue delivered. When I look at the ps output after a flush, I see a a number of dbmail-lmtp processes in a state of "defunct". A sufficient number of such processes always means no mail is being delivered. If there are only one or two, some mail still gets through.I'm attaching a somewhat large log (three seconds of a postfix flush) which I think includes both good and bad deliveries. It's fairly long, I apologize for that. The problem is that since the error report comes from postfix, (and it's a timeout) it's hard to say which lmtp process
caused it, and therefore which lmtp syslog lines are relevant. I can only hope that I've included *enough* info for you to determine what was going wrong. Matija
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