Please help: some incoming mail is not being delivered - stuck in /var/lib/amavis/tmp

Mat Cantin mat at cantinbrothers.ca
Sun Mar 10 20:30:20 CET 2013


I just came across the same problem.  For some reason the content filtering system, wallaced on port 10026, eats the email and I have no idea what happens to it. My temporary fix I to bypass wallaced in postfix's master.cf config file. I wonder what other emails it's been eating?

"Mahringer, Thomas" <tmahring at tmweb.at> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I'm running Kolab 3.0 on Debian testing with basically the default 
>configuration. Everything seems to be working fine, but I recently
>found 
>out that some incoming mail is not being delivered.
>I found out by installing steam on a new computer - valve normally 
>sends a mail with a short ID one needs on the first login on a new 
>machine, I didn't get those mails.
>After looking around on my server I found out that the mail is put in 
>/var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-VERY_LONG_ID/email.txt and remains there for
>
>a while until it gets deleted at some point. It never makes it to my 
>inbox.
>Checking the logs also didn't help, they seem to tell me that the mail 
>got delivered:
>
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/qmgr[3241]: 2F5E8280AF3: 
>from=<noreply at steampowered.com>, size=4697, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/smtpd[24736]: connect from 
>localhost[127.0.0.1]
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/smtpd[24736]: 6C5842813F7: 
>client=localhost[127.0.0.1], orig_queue_id=2F5E8280AF3, 
>orig_client=wcmx2.valvesoftware.com[72.165.61.135]
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/cleanup[24737]: 6C5842813F7: 
>message-id=<E1UEgBT-0005qQ-2M at wcmx2.valvesoftware.com>
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/qmgr[3241]: 6C5842813F7: 
>from=<noreply at steampowered.com>, size=5090, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail amavis[24669]: (24669-01) Passed CLEAN 
>{RelayedInbound}, [72.165.61.135]:51618 [208.64.200.132] 
><noreply at steampowered.com> -> <thomas.mahringer at tmweb.at>, Queue-ID: 
>2F5E8280
>AF3, Message-ID: <E1UEgBT-0005qQ-2M at wcmx2.valvesoftware.com>, mail_id: 
>U48-SCXYysUV, Hits: -, size: 4690, queued_as: 6C5842813F7, 166 ms
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/smtp[24738]: 6C5842813F7: 
>to=<thomas.mahringer at tmweb.at>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10026, 
>delay=0.11, delays=0.09/0.01/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok)
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/qmgr[3241]: 6C5842813F7: removed
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/smtp[24734]: 2F5E8280AF3: 
>to=<thomas.mahringer at tmweb.at>, orig_to=<tmahring at tmweb.at>, 
>relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=313, delays=312/0.01/0/0.17, 
>dsn=2.0.0
>, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA(smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 
>Ok: queued as 6C5842813F7)
>Mar 10 14:26:16 mail postfix/qmgr[3241]: 2F5E8280AF3: removed
>
>I don't know what part of the mail causes this problem. The only way 
>for me to reproduce this behavior so far is to make steam send me more 
>of these mails. I'm pretty sure though that they are not the only ones 
>effected, as I have found other mails in that folder occasionally.
>
>Please help me fix this. I don't know where to go from here, is there 
>something else I can check to help solve this problem ?
>
>regards
>Thomas Mahringer
>
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Mat
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