I suggst that you strace the smtpd process as described in https://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#auto_trace
This will log a lot of information, and if you are stuck with systemd logging rate limits, then we may need to do some additional surghery to get at the evidence. Wietse The following instructions assume that postscreen ahd naproxy are not enabled. Otherwise, you will neeed different instructiopns. In order for smtpd to respond to the client, all the following needs to happen: - The master wakes up from epoll or whatever and spawns an smtpd process. - The smtpd process grabs a lock on $queue_directory/pid/smtpd.pid (that's probably an fcntl() call) - The smtpd process informs the master that is is taking the connection (that's a write call) - The smtpd process calls accept() and passes that to the smtp server code - The smtp server code looks up the server and client IP address - The smtp server code looks up the client address-to-name mapping, and the name-to-address mapping. - The smtp server code logs "connect from host[addr]..." _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org