James B. Byrne:
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> On Mon, April 10, 2017 11:29, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > James B. Byrne:
> >> 66 Apr 8 10:50:27 inet08 postfix-p25/smtpd[18374]: warning:
> >> timeout talking to proxy 127.0.0.1:10024
> >> 67 Apr 8 10:50:27 inet08 postfix-p25/smtpd[18374]:
> >> proxy-reject:
> >> END-OF-MESSAGE: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error; from=<x>
> >> to=<y> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-it0-f49.google.com>
> >
> > The spam proxy is taking a long time to do something. To find out what
> > that is, see the spam proxy's log.
> >
> > Wietse
> >
>
> This is all that I see in /var/log/spamd for the relevant time period.
>
> # cat /var/log/spamd.log-20170409
> . . .
> Sat Apr 8 00:06:25 2017 [3845] info: spamd: server started on port
> 783/tcp (running version 3.3.1)
> Sat Apr 8 00:06:25 2017 [3845] info: spamd: server pid: 3845
> Sat Apr 8 00:06:25 2017 [3845] info: spamd: server successfully
> spawned child process, pid 3851
> Sat Apr 8 00:06:25 2017 [3845] info: spamd: server successfully
> spawned child process, pid 3852
> Sat Apr 8 00:06:25 2017 [3845] info: prefork: child states: IS
> Sat Apr 8 00:06:25 2017 [3845] info: prefork: child states: II
> Sun Apr 9 03:29:27 2017 [3845] info: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM,
> shutting down
>
> There are no entries at all between midnight on the 8th and a
> maintenance reboot on the 9th. Or have I misunderstood your
> reference?
If this is all the logging, then I suggest that you ask the people
who created this product how to get more insight into the handling
of individual mail transactions.
Wietse
