Package: postfix Version: 2.5.5-1.1 Severity: normal Hi. I fetchmail down and postfix up to my ISP's Smarthost. Often this works fine. Too often, it doesn't. I suspected over-aggressive greylisting, but that appears not to be the case. And now, I see it's not. Within an hour's time, mails go out fine, then fail (see Subject). Or fail, then start working, then fail. I hate intermittent failures.
I've disabled mysqld startup. I don't need it if I'm not using it. Can that be involved? I've tried troubleshooting this with my ISP (which is *nix aware/generally competent), but they think my system is not always sending authentication. I find that hard to believe. SMTP is supposed to queue messages, and temporary bounces ought to be re-tried, but aren't. Why? Is a 501 error supposed to be final? Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/smtp[8939]: 39F3352172: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14]:25, delay=0.18, delays=0.03/0.01/0.08/0.06, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14] said: 501 5.7.1 This system is not configured to relay mail from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]> for dsl-vlan423-66-18-197-214.nucleus.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Successful: ----------------------------------- Dec 12 17:43:17 infidel postfix/pickup[7193]: 3139E52172: uid=1000 from=<keeling> Dec 12 17:43:17 infidel postfix/cleanup[9068]: 3139E52172: message-id=<[email protected]> Dec 12 17:43:17 infidel postfix/qmgr[3507]: 3139E52172: from=<[email protected]>, size=2935, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 12 17:43:17 infidel postfix/smtp[9071]: 3139E52172: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14]:25, delay=0.22, delays=0.03/0.01/0.1/0.09, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Message received OK [[email protected]]) Dec 12 17:43:17 infidel postfix/qmgr[3507]: 3139E52172: removed ----------------------------------- Unsuccessful: ----------------------------------- Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/pickup[7193]: 39F3352172: uid=1000 from=<keeling> Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/cleanup[8936]: 39F3352172: message-id=<[email protected]> Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/qmgr[3507]: 39F3352172: from=<[email protected]>, size=2804, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/smtp[8939]: 39F3352172: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14]:25, delay=0.18, delays=0.03/0.01/0.08/0.06, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14] said: 501 5.7.1 This system is not configured to relay mail from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]> for dsl-vlan423-66-18-197-214.nucleus.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/cleanup[8936]: 6671852177: message-id=<[email protected]> Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/qmgr[3507]: 6671852177: from=<>, size=4923, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/bounce[8940]: 39F3352172: sender non-delivery notification: 6671852177 Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/qmgr[3507]: 39F3352172: removed Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/smtp[8939]: 6671852177: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14]:25, delay=0.4, delays=0.01/0/0.08/0.32, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Message received OK [[email protected]]) Dec 12 17:35:20 infidel postfix/qmgr[3507]: 6671852177: removed ----------------------------------- -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages postfix depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf- 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.14.29+b1 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.7-18lenny6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-11 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [ ii libsasl2-2 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny9 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.34 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii ssl-cert 1.0.23 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL postfix recommends no packages. Versions of packages postfix suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mail-r 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent ii emacs [mail-reade 22.2+2-5 The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage) ii emacs22 [mail-rea 22.2+2-5 The GNU Emacs editor ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 Cyrus SASL - pluggable authenticat ii mutt [mail-reader 1.5.18-6 text-based mailreader supporting M pn postfix-cdb <none> (no description available) pn postfix-ldap <none> (no description available) ii postfix-mysql 2.5.5-1.1 MySQL map support for Postfix pn postfix-pcre <none> (no description available) ii postfix-pgsql 2.5.5-1.1 PostgreSQL map support for Postfix ii procmail 3.22-16 Versatile e-mail processor pn resolvconf <none> (no description available) pn sasl2-bin <none> (no description available) pn ufw <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: * postfix/mailname: nucleus.com postfix/tlsmgr_upgrade_warning: postfix/retry_upgrade_warning: * postfix/relayhost: smtp.nucleus.com * postfix/procmail: true postfix/bad_recipient_delimiter: postfix/rfc1035_violation: false * postfix/mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 * postfix/protocols: all * postfix/recipient_delim: * postfix/main_mailer_type: Internet with smarthost postfix/kernel_version_warning: * postfix/chattr: false * postfix/root_address: keeling postfix/mydomain_warning: * postfix/destinations: infidel.nucleus.com, localhost postfix/not_configured: * postfix/mailbox_limit: 0 -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. 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