On Sat, 06 Jun 2009, Sriram Nyshadham wrote: > Please help me understand why this happened. Postfix has been running fine > for the past one year + without any issues and suddenly it crashed > yesterday on one of our production servers with the following messages: > > Jun 6 10:41:52 in02 postfix/smtpd[82431]: warning: connect #1 to subsystem > private/rewrite: Connection refused
Are you on a Solaris box by any chance? Seems the socket used by trivial-rewrite is down or unresponsive, and when you restart, it is once again available which is why the problem 'goes away'. Just a guess. There have been some posts about this on the mailing list before -- check archives. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>