postfix email deferred and stuck message

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-11-15 01:23 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>
> 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

The messages got stuck again, restarting wallaced freed the messages, 
but not sure how to fix it permanently.

I am running:  pykolab-0.5.14-1.el6.kolab_3.0.noarch

thanks,

Geoff