On 10/09/2010 05:14 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> I think this is a bug on dbmail-side
> 
> lmtpd should send a 4xx-temorary-error instead a 5xx-hard-bounce
> So postfix would try later to deliver the message again

That is easier said than done.

The current setup will put lmtpd into sleep-mode immediately if the
database goes away, and stay there until the connection recovers. In
sleep mode no new client connections are accepted, and indeed in a
perfect world existing connections should be dealt with gracefully.

So obviously there are race-conditions at play here. Currently queries
either succeed, or queries fail. The exact nature of the query failure
is *not* examined, nor communicated back up the call stack! All query
errors are hard errors.

The solution in this case is simple of course: do not shut down your
database, unless you've shut down postfix or dbmail-lmtpd first. In
fact, shutting down lmtpd during dbmail-maintenance runs doesn't sound
too bad.



> 
> Postfix does this as sample if he losts the connection to lmtp for whatever
> reason, but not if the target gives a 5xx-error back
> 
> Am 09.10.2010 17:06, schrieb Dis McCarthy:
>>  I got a bounce message (to the same alias that failed, strangely enough) 
>> during the nightly cron run. It looks
>> like several messages were outright discarded at that time. Shouldn't a db 
>> connection reset (or db unavailable) be
>> a temporary error? Is there a place to configure that?
>>
>> <[email protected]> (expanded from <root>): host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 
>> 550
>>     Recipient <[email protected]> FAIL (in reply to RCPT TO command)
>>
>> Looking at the logs:
>>
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem postfix/pickup[10082]: 309771C0405: uid=0 from=<root>
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem postfix/cleanup[12188]: 309771C0405: 
>> message-id=<[email protected]>
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem postfix/qmgr[21315]: 309771C0405: 
>> from=<[email protected]>, size=763, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem dbmail/lmtpd[20778]: Message:[serverchild] 
>> serverchild.c,PerformChildTask(+349): incoming connection from [127.0.0.1] 
>> by pid [20778]
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem dbmail/lmtpd[20778]: Error:[sql] 
>> dbpgsql.c,db_query(+287): query failed [SELECT deliver_to FROM 
>> dbmail_aliases WHERE lower(alias) = lower('[email protected]') AND 
>> lower(alias) <> lower(deliver_to)] : [FATAL:  terminating connection due to 
>> administrator command#012server closed the connection 
>> unexpectedly#012#011This probably means the server terminated 
>> abnormally#012#011before or while processing the request.#012]
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem dbmail/lmtpd[20778]: Error:[auth] 
>> authsql.c,__auth_query(+293): error executing query
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem postfix/lmtp[12191]: 309771C0405: 
>> to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<root>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:24, 
>> delay=0.73, delays=0.46/0.02/0.07/0.18, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host 
>> 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 550 Recipient <[email protected]> FAIL (in reply 
>> to RCPT TO command))
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem postfix/cleanup[12188]: 94A9C1C041B: 
>> message-id=<[email protected]>
>> Oct  9 05:00:03 mayhem postfix/bounce[12193]: 309771C0405: sender 
>> non-delivery notification: 94A9C1C041B
>>
>>
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