tanmecolor

emails sent and received by the mail server are sent into queue but not delivered or any mails in the queue received by the email client.


Please help me fix this. The machine got restarted due to power failures before this issue happened.

Thank you
tAN

Resolution:

Postfix: Temporary failure
By brianchrist
After a system crash (caused by overloaded on Power Source) my Postfix is not working properly, symptoms:

- sent and receive (SMTP & POP) work normal, no error
- no mail received
- in mail log there is “temporary failure” words

Workaround:

- look at the log detail
- this error is not caused by postfix software, but by it’s supported softwares
- make sure mysql (database), amavis (antivirus), spamassassin (spam blocker) are running

Here’s an example of failed amavis:

Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 postfix/smtpd[10079]: warning: 202.57.4.66: address not listed for hostname mail.id.dbsvickers.com
Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 postfix/smtpd[10079]: connect from unknown[202.57.4.66]
Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 postfix/smtpd[10079]: E313914D7E8: client=unknown[202.57.4.66]
Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 postfix/cleanup[8259]: E313914D7E8: message-id=<2PwwjhNaX0000a226@dbsvi-es01.id.dbsvickers.com>
Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 postfix/qmgr[4947]: E313914D7E8: from=<>, size=2799, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 amavis(client)[10140]: failed to connect(): Connection refused
Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 amavis(client)[10140]: failing with EX_TEMPFAIL: Connection refused
Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 postfix/smtpd[10079]: disconnect from unknown[202.57.4.66]
Nov 10 09:08:11 smtp3 postfix/pipe[10071]: E313914D7E8: to=<cyrus8randolph9@EmaillionairesEmail.com>, relay=vscan, delay=0, status=deferred (temporary failure
)


After you have edited your config files ( main.cf & master.cf) and make sure there are no references to amavis, you must requeue the messages already in postfix.

run tail -n 100 /var/log/mail - you should not see relay = vscan or amavis

try issuing:

'postsuper -r ALL'