postfix email deferred and stuck message

Geoff Nordli geoffn at gnaa.net
Fri Nov 15 22:23:37 CET 2013


I am running Kolab Enterprise on Centos 6.4

Postfix was unable to deliver email.  I had to restart the server in 
order to fix the problem.  I am not even sure where to look the next 
time this comes up.  Nothing was in amavisd, messages, maillog, kolab 
logs.  When I did a search, someone said restarting it fixed the 
problem, but that doesn't actually fix it.

00:39:05 ma-mail1 postfix/smtp[32355]: 6CB0D2B45A: to=<user at gnaa.net>, 
relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10026, delay=23913, delays=23613/0.02/300/0, 
dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (conversation with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] timed 
out while receiving the initial server greeting)

Not sure if this is related, but I have an email stuck in the queue as well.

F3468286AD  3491946 Tue Nov 12 09:38:50  user1 at domain.com
(lost connection with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while sending end of data -- 
message may be sent more than once)

and when I try to flush it.

postqueue -f
[root at mail1 rsyslog.d]# error: uncaptured python exception, closing 
channel <smtpd.SMTPChannel connected 127.0.0.1:36704 at 0x102cdd0> 
(<type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>:'utf8' codec can't decode byte 
0x92 in position 5975: invalid start byte 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/asyncore.py|read|78] 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/asyncore.py|handle_read_event|428] 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/asynchat.py|handle_read|158] 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtpd.py|found_terminator|184] 
[/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wallace/__init__.py|process_message|263] 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/__init__.py|dumps|237] 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/encoder.py|encode|367] 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/encoder.py|_iterencode|309] 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/encoder.py|_iterencode_dict|275] 
[/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/encoder.py|_iterencode|294])

Any ideas?

thanks,

Geoff


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