Lost Emails in Kolab

Gunnar Wrobel wrobel at pardus.de
Thu Feb 25 18:29:42 CET 2010


Quoting Jochen May <admin at jmay.org>:

> Hi,
>
> i got some problems with my mailsystem yesterday. Fetchmail grep  
> around 3 pm a
> couple of mails from my provider and hand it over to postfix. So far so good.
> Unfortunaly, i never get this mails. After browsing thrue the log-files i
> found this:
>
> Feb 24 14:41:16 kolab kolabd[2930]: Y Error: Unable to connect to local Cyrus
> admin interface
>
> So i guess, that this was the problem. But i don't get the mails.

The log entry you posted is from the kolabd daemon which is not really  
involved in the mail delivery.

>
> I got in my mind, that postfix keep the messages until they can forward it to
> cyrus. So normaly, the messages shout be appear after the restart of the
> server...
> But when i take a look to the postfix.log, it shows me, that the messages are
> bounced back.

The log entries from postfix.log are the ones that should help to  
determine what the problem actually was. Can you anonymize them and  
post them here?

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> First of all, is this right what i write there? And if yes, can somebody
> explain me why it work in this?
>
> After a restart of the server, everything was ok. Expect the missing  
> mails :-(
>
> Greetings
> Jochen May
>
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