Phil Biggs:
> Hello and happy new year to all,
>
> My friend is currently running FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC with the
> postfix-sasl-3.7.2_1,1 pkg.
>
> Today I noticed this in his log:
>
> 2023-01-02T20:07:39.385545+11:00 postfix.[redacted] postfix/verify 23191 - -
> cache ??????????????????????????????????? partial cleanup: retained=1
> dropped=0 entries
>
> Searching back through some archived logs from the same host, I found these:
>
> 2020-01-17 00:03:39 10.0.1.8 <22>Jan 17 00:03:40 postfix/verify[33140]:
> cache ??????????????????????????????????? partial cleanup: retained=1
> dropped=0 entries
> 2020-09-02 19:44:57 10.0.1.8 <22>Sep 2 19:44:59
> postfix/postscreen[68217]: cache ???????????????????????????????????????
> partial cleanup: retained=1 dropped=0 entries
>
> So this is very rare and doesn't seem to cause any other issues -
> cleanups work fine the rest of the time.
>
> I was just curious what might cause that string of question marks.
This is what a Postfix string looks like after its memory is freed.
Something to look at in the train tomorrow.
Wietse
> My own logs, on a very similar server, don't seem to have any instances of
> the
> same.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
>
