Hi -
Please, if anyone has any clues or suggestions as to what could
possibly be
borking mail services on this machine, I'd really like to hear from
you.
Things hummed along merrily under CommuniGate Pro for months, but I
wasn't
able to secure funding to continue using it and finally went
through the
process of migrating over all of the accounts and lists to
Panther's native
mail services (yes, all of the CommuniGate startup scripts etc have
been
removed and no, there are no CommuniGate threads currently running).
So far I haven't been able to keep Panther mail services running
for more
than 12 hours. Came in today and found 97% of CPU in use, a ton of
pop3
threads hanging around, POP requests not responding... And we're
talking
less than 20 accounts and a few seldom-used lists. There's got to be
something weird going on here, but I don't know where to begin
looking.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Scot
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:14:31 -0700
From: Scot Hacker <email@hidden>
Subject: Mail services dying
To: macosx-server <email@hidden>
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I've recently enabled the built-in mail services on Panther server
(POP/IMAP, Squirrel) and am finding that mail-related processes
are killing
themselves off every few hours. Just after enabling Mail service
in Server
Admin:
$ ps aux | grep postfix
postfix 10140 0.0 0.1 27520 732 ?? S 4:00PM
0:00.46 pickup
-l -t fifo -u
postfix 10141 0.0 0.2 27556 1092 ?? S 4:00PM
0:02.36 qmgr -l
-t fifo -u
postfix 10146 0.0 0.1 27524 760 ?? S 4:00PM 0:00.10
trivial-rewrite -n rewrite -t unix -u
postfix 10323 0.0 0.2 27592 812 ?? S 4:00PM
0:00.27 cleanup
-z -t unix -u
postfix 11025 0.0 0.1 27552 764 ?? S 4:01PM
0:00.12 pipe -n
cyrus -t unix user=cyrus argv=/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r $
{sender} -m
${extension} ${us
postfix 11204 0.0 0.1 27492 688 ?? S 4:06PM 0:00.03
proxymap -t unix -u
postfix 11246 0.0 0.2 27616 884 ?? S 4:07PM
0:00.01 local
-t unix
postfix 11271 0.0 0.2 27600 864 ?? S 4:08PM
0:00.02 smtpd
-n smtp -t inet -u
A few hours later, just a few of these are listed. An hour or two
later,
none of them are running, and no mail can be received.
System.log contains hundreds of these:
Apr 27 16:00:17 rosebud deliver[10245]: connect(/var/imap/socket/
lmtp)
failed: Connection refused
And a couple of these:
Apr 27 15:57:06 rosebud postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix
mail
system is not running
I see one of these around the time of the last restart of mail
services:
Apr 27 16:00:51 rosebud ctl_cyrusdb[10139]: done recovering cyrus
databases
I have no idea where to start looking for the culprit here.
Suggestions very
welcome.
Thanks,
Scot
--
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
http://journalism.berkeley.edu
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