On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Jozsef Kadlecsik <kad...@blackhole.kfki.hu>: > > > According to the postfix log, the client did not send any email > > successfully at that time and there's no reference to the queue ids again. > > However, from the policy daemon log, there was 46 messages processed. > > Well, speaking SMTP is not something only postfix can do. > Maybe some application was abused to send mail using SMTP directly to > the host that throttled the onslaught.
Sorry, I was not clear: postfix and the policyd runs on the same mail gateway and the client is forced to relay through it. No process communicates to the policyd except postfix. So how does it come that the policyd processes more messages than postfix itself (according to the log)? Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kad...@blackhole.kfki.hu, kad...@mail.kfki.hu PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary