[Postfix] sasl_passwd.db password protected

2018-02-21 Thread kasper4165
Hello all, I have a problem during configuration of postfix smtp server. My company policy is to not storage files with any credentials which are not encrypted on any host. Is there any way to make sasl_passwd.db file protected with password and at the same time it can be used by postfix? Maybe

RE: Postfix using all CPU after nightly mail submission

2018-02-21 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
Hi Zach, my postfix box is on Vmware too….Did the folks that manage VmWare see any oddity? No alarms ? No performance spikes ? Also I use Zabbix for monitoring so I get email warnings when certain thresholds are exceeded. Maybe the backend VMware storage is having an issue ? shooting from the

Re: [Postfix] sasl_passwd.db password protected

2018-02-21 Thread Wietse Venema
kasper4165: > Hello all, > > I have a problem during configuration of postfix smtp server. > My company policy is to not storage files with any credentials which are not > encrypted on any host. Is there any way to make sasl_passwd.db file > protected with password and at the same time it can be

Re: Postfix using all CPU after nightly mail submission

2018-02-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Zach Sheppard: > I did as you suggested and opened a console on the VMWare host, did a tail > of the mail log, and it sent mail for a good 5-10 minutes before finally > becoming unresponsive. I tried to Ctrl-C out of tail, nothing. I've done Thanks for confirming that the ENTIRE SYSTEM LOCKS UP.

Re: Postfix using all CPU after nightly mail submission

2018-02-21 Thread MK
Was seeing similar behaviour under high tcp load in other applications (unrelated to postfix). It’s possible you’re running into this bug. Try to Set vmxnet3.rev.30=FALSE under the VMs properties and reboot More info here:191201 – Randomly freezes due to VMXNET3  | | | 191201 – Randomly

Re: Postfix using all CPU after nightly mail submission

2018-02-21 Thread Zach Sheppard
Hi Wietse, I limited my postfix installation to default_process_limit 5, 4, 3, 2, and even 1, and still saw the same effects. I am thinking it might be either my opendkim milter (which applies the DKIM signature for each mail) or SASL as these are the only other processes on the server. Are you