Hi All,
I'm having trouble with the Mail service on MacOSX Server Snow Leopard 10.6.8. A few days ago it just suddenly stopped delivering email both ways (outgoing and incoming). Email doesn't bounce it just seems to get trapped in postfix. The SMTP log repeats: Oct 22 07:02:21 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #1 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:02:31 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #2 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:02:41 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #3 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:02:51 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #4 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:03:01 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #5 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:03:11 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #6 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:03:21 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #7 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:03:31 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #8 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:03:41 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #9 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:03:51 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: warning: connect #10 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:04:01 server postfix/qmgr[33748]: fatal: connect #11 to subsystem private/trace: Connection refused Oct 22 07:04:02 server postfix/master[21458]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 33748 exit status 1 and the IMAP log shows: Oct 21 15:00:09 server dovecot[1446]: IMAP(*): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/CBAADED6-2713-11D8-94F9-00306542E9BA/.Sent Messages/dovecot.index.cache: Corrupted physical size for uid=8712: 527 != 504 Oct 21 15:00:10 server dovecot[1446]: IMAP(*): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/CBAADED6-2713-11D8-94F9-00306542E9BA/.Sent Messages/dovecot.index.cache: Corrupted physical size for uid=8422: 384 != 369 (the way to fix these seems to be deleting cache files and letting dovecot rebuild them, but I have done that and they still seem to pop up now and then) and Mail access shows: Oct 22 07:06:11 server push_notify[21380]: notification server connect failed, will retry in 300 seconds There are about 200 emails in the Mail Queue and a strange one with id FFFFFFFFFF and recipients and sender […] and sometimes strange entries pop up in there the look like a mail config file. Strangely sometimes a few emails seem to get through and in my tinkering a bunch of emails once got through. Everything was working find and I don't think I changed anything to cause this. I've tried just about everything I know, including: 1. Stopped and started the Mail Service and rebooted the server multiple times 2. Deleted (using Server Admin) entries in the Mail Queue that look problematic (there was one relatively large one 13MB and one or two without recipients in the listing) 3. Turned up logging but nothing new seems to be reported 4. Search the web for the error message but can't find anything really related to "private/trace" My next idea is to remove all the mail in the Mail Queue but I would prefer not to do that. Any suggestions or even pointers to forums that can help with postfix problems (if it is postfix causing this) would be most appreciated. My wife is getting impatient for her email ;-) Note this is Snow Leopard Server (running on a Mac mini Server) and NOT Lion Server. Thanks in advance for any assistance or pointers. Cheers, Ashley. PS Sending this through MobileMe_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
