Stefan Foerster:
> Hello world,
>
> I am concerned about those log entries:
>
> Aug 24 21:16:51 drought postfix/pickup[23165]: fatal: watchdog timeout
> Aug 24 21:16:52 drought postfix/master[4713]: warning: process
> /usr/libexec/postfix/pickup pid 23165 exit status 1
> Aug 24 21:33:31 drought postfix/pickup[28467]: fatal: watchdog timeout
> Aug 24 21:33:32 drought postfix/master[4713]: warning: process
> /usr/libexec/postfix/pickup pid 28467 exit status 1
By default, Postfix 2.6 and later pickup(8) commits suicide when
it takes more than $daemon_timeout seconds to copy one message from
the maildrop queue.
Default, daemon_timeout = 18000s (several hours).
The above logging suggests that your pickup commits suicide after 1000s,
which is the hard-coded behavior in Postfix 2.5 and earlier.
In your case you need to find out why this takes more than 1000s.
I suspect the clock is busted or cleanup(8) has too many rules.
Wietse
