Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-14 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Robert Krig : On 01/13/2012 09:52 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Robert Krig : On 01/11/2012 08:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, at least for a while. Are you using pam_mysql by chance? Yes, I am.

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Krig
On 01/13/2012 09:52 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: > Zitat von Robert Krig : > >> >> >> On 01/11/2012 08:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, at least for a while. >>> Are you using pam_mysql by chance? >> >> Yes,

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-13 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Robert Krig : On 01/11/2012 08:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, at least for a while. Are you using pam_mysql by chance? Yes, I am. Too bad, pam_mysql is known to leak memory. We have used it some time ago a

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-13 Thread Robert Krig
On 01/11/2012 08:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: >> Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, >> at least for a while. >> > Are you using pam_mysql by chance? Yes, I am.

RE: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-12 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Robert Krig > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:03 AM > To: Postfix users > Subject: Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue > > I think I might hav

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-12 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 13:11:12 Wietse Venema wrote: > Robert Krig: This is just a quick heads up for people who might be experiencing similar issues. I think I might have identified the problem. Apparently in some situations SASLauthd can produce memory leaks. This is what I've gathered

RE: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Gary Smith
> Restarting postfix, saslauthd and authdaemon seems to get it working again, > at least for a while. > Are you using pam_mysql by chance?

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 11:38:13 Wietse Venema wrote: > > > You have a problem that starts at some unpredictable moment, and > > that causes SOME ACCOUNTs to fail PERSISTENTLY after it starts. > > > > This is typical of one PERSISTENT process (like saslauthd or mysqld) > > hav

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 11:38:13 Wietse Venema wrote: > You have a problem that starts at some unpredictable moment, and > that causes SOME ACCOUNTs to fail PERSISTENTLY after it starts. > > This is typical of one PERSISTENT process (like saslauthd or mysqld) > having some corruption of some

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 10:15:19 Wietse Venema wrote: > > > > > Some accounts fail persistently, if I recall correctly. > > Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. Let me explain again. You have a problem that starts at some unpredictable moment, and that causes SOME ACCOUNTs t

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 10:15:19 Wietse Venema wrote: > > Some accounts fail persistently, if I recall correctly. Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. Let me explain again. Our 4 webservers CONSTANTLY send registration emails to new users via a local php-mailer on each webserver instance

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 09:08:03 Wietse Venema wrote: > > Fortunately, the Postfix SMTP server is a short-lived process that > > runs for a few minutes at a time without ever changing the system > > configuration. Every new Postfix SMTP server process is like a > > new-born wit

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 09:08:03 Wietse Venema wrote: > Fortunately, the Postfix SMTP server is a short-lived process that > runs for a few minutes at a time without ever changing the system > configuration. Every new Postfix SMTP server process is like a > new-born with a blank memory of its

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 08:08:34 I wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:45:46 Robert Krig wrote: > > Whats weird is that the problem gets fixed by simply > > restarting the services. > > Try it without restarting Postfix next time, just your > saslauthd and anything it needs for data (e.g

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:45:46 Robert Krig wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:14:14 Wietse Venema wrote: > > Why do you believe that there is a problem with SASL > > authentication between the PHP application and Postfix? > > Because the only error that shows up in the log file is thi

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:14:14 Wietse Venema wrote: > > > Why do you believe that there is a problem with SASL authentication > > between the PHP application and Postfix? > > Because the only error that shows up in the log file is this: > ###

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Krig
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:14:14 Wietse Venema wrote: > Why do you believe that there is a problem with SASL authentication > between the PHP application and Postfix? > Because the only error that shows up in the log file is this: ## postfix/smtpd[

Re: Strange SASL Authentication Issue

2012-01-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Robert Krig: > I've got a weird issue on one of my postfix installations that I can't > explain. > > My postfix setup uses MySQL as an authentication backend, and the > accounts are managed via Postfixadmin. > > All of our webservers use phpmailer to send out registration notices to > users who r