I've recently installed Amavis-new with SpamAssassin and ClamAV on one
of my boxes running Postfix 2.6.5.
I'm now seeing this occasionally in the maillog:
Feb 14 20:42:47 carbonfiber postfix/smtp[19516]: fatal: garbage after
"]" in server description: [127.0.0.1] :10025
Feb 14 20:42:47 carbonfiber postfix/smtp[19517]: fatal: garbage after
"]" in server description: [127.0.0.1] :10025
Feb 14 20:42:47 carbonfiber postfix/smtp[19518]: fatal: garbage after
"]" in server description: [127.0.0.1] :10025
Feb 14 20:42:47 carbonfiber postfix/smtp[19519]: fatal: garbage after
"]" in server description: [127.0.0.1] :10025
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[17204]: warning: private/smtp
socket: malformed response
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[17204]: warning: transport
smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for
the problem description
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/master[10978]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 19516 exit status 1
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/master[10978]: warning:
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[17204]: warning: private/smtp
socket: malformed response
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[17204]: warning: transport
smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for
the problem description
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/master[10978]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 19517 exit status 1
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[17204]: warning: private/smtp
socket: malformed response
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[17204]: warning: transport
smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for
the problem description
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/master[10978]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 19518 exit status 1
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[17204]: warning: private/smtp
socket: malformed response
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[17204]: warning: transport
smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for
the problem description
Feb 14 20:42:48 carbonfiber postfix/master[10978]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 19519 exit status 1
Port 10025 is stated in master.cf:
smtp-amavis unix - - n - 2 smtp
-o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
-o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes
-o disable_dns_lookups=yes
-o max_use=20
127.0.0.1:10025 inet n - n - - smtpd
-o content_filter=
-o local_recipient_maps=
-o relay_recipient_maps=
-o smtpd_restriction_classes=
-o smtpd_delay_reject=no
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
-o smtpd_data_restrictions=reject_unauth_pipelining
-o smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions=
-o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8
-o smtpd_error_sleep_time=0
-o smtpd_soft_error_limit=1001
-o smtpd_hard_error_limit=1000
-o smtpd_client_connection_count_limit=0
-o smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit=0
-o
receive_override_options=no_header_body_checks,no_unknown_recipient_checks
And this is the content_filter line in main.cf:
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
It must be related to the content filter settings I just added. Anyone
familiar with how all these programs interact got any clues as to what
might be causing this error? Restarting Postfix seems to make the
errors stop for a while, but within a couple hours they are always
back.
Google produced a 2009 discussion on this discussion list re: a
similar error, but I didn't see any resolution. :(
Thanks,
SteveJ
