Hello, I've a problem with postfix and rsyslog.
Symptoms: Mail gets stuck in the maildrop queue, it takes a lot of time to deliver email. Treatment: Restarting the rsyslog deamon. This lets the messages get picked up from the maildrop queue very fast. I've already read http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html#syslog_howto , and did what they suggest: > IMPORTANT: on Linux you need to put a "-" character before the > pathname, e.g., -/var/log/maillog, otherwise the syslogd process > will use more system resources than Postfix. My rsyslog is full of hyphens, and still from time to time I'll have messages stuck on the maildrop queue, and I still need to restart rsyslog for them to be picked up. What can I do? Some other info that might be relevant: * After I restart rsyslog it would stop writing to the log files. I'll need to reboot the server for rsyslog to resume logging. * The postfix version is 2.9.6 * The operating system is Ubuntu 12.04 * The server is a VMware VM. Thanks -- Diego A Puertas
