Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-05 Thread Nataraj
Nataraj wrote: Hi, I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer on the following problem that I'm having with postfix... I'm running postfix+pgsql-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 on a CentOS 5.4 server. I see what looks likes a server in stress mode as described in http://www.postfix.org/STRESS_REA

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Wietse Venema wrote: Nataraj: Thank you everyone for your helpful responses. I've narrowed the problem down further, though it is not solved yet. It does not appear to be specific to postfix. I've written a simple program with a select statement that delays 10 seconds when run on any of my

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Wietse Venema
Nataraj: > Thank you everyone for your helpful responses. I've narrowed the problem > down further, though it is not solved yet. It does not appear to be > specific to postfix. I've written a simple program with a select > statement that delays 10 seconds when run on any of my own computers, >

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Wietse Venema wrote: Nataraj: I am extensively familiar with my main.cf file and am aware of exactly what changes have been made. This mail server has been running stably for years and I am not yet aware of changes to the mail configuration files surrounding the time when this problem cam

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: I am extensively familiar with my main.cf file and am aware of exactly what changes have been made. This mail server has been running stably for years and I am not yet aware of changes to the mail configuration files surrounding the time when this problem

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Wietse Venema
Nataraj: > I am extensively familiar with my main.cf file and am aware of exactly > what changes have been made. This mail server has been running stably > for years and I am not yet aware of changes to the mail configuration > files surrounding the time when this problem came up. > > There a

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: I do not have a front end on my mailserver. All incoming mail comes directly into postfix. I am running a vpostmaster install which is not a front end, I'm not an expert on this, but your machine ID's with 'vpostmaster' in the greet

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: I do not have a front end on my mailserver. All incoming mail comes directly into postfix. I am running a vpostmaster install which is not a front end, I'm not an expert on this, but your machine ID's with 'vpostmaster' in the greeting, so that means it is

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Nataraj : Noel Jones wrote: You can try setting smtpd_timeout and smtp_connect_timeout to riduclously high values (maybe 3000s for testing) to see if it makes any difference. If it doesn't change anything, then this problem is outside postfix somewhere and you'll need to exam

Re: [pfx] Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: I have attached tcpdump-with-commands.txt where I pasted with the mouse helo mymail.com mail from: What use is that? Post your LOGS. You know, /var/log/mail with relevant log entries from psotfix and any other program that handles your mail... - C

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote: Noel Jones wrote (on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:33:48PM -0500): On 5/4/2010 2:16 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: Enclosed is a tcpdump of a telnet connection where nothing was typed, i.e. I telnetted to the smtp server and 5 se

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Noel Jones wrote: You can try setting smtpd_timeout and smtp_connect_timeout to riduclously high values (maybe 3000s for testing) to see if it makes any difference. If it doesn't change anything, then this problem is outside postfix somewhere and you'll need to examine other parts of your

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Noel Jones wrote: The described behavior suggests smtpd_timeout is set for 4s, but that parameter isn't in the postconf or master.cf shown to the list. Or the poster has a front-end on his mail server, and that is why I asked for a complete log of th

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/4/2010 2:51 PM, Nataraj wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: Enclosed is a tcpdump of a telnet connection where nothing was typed, i.e. I telnetted to the smtp server and 5 seconds later the server closed the connection. THIS IS NORMAL. As I said previously, t

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: Enclosed is a tcpdump of a telnet connection where nothing was typed, i.e. I telnetted to the smtp server and 5 seconds later the server closed the connection. THIS IS NORMAL. As I said previously, type the MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, and DAT

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread N. Yaakov Ziskind
Noel Jones wrote (on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:33:48PM -0500): > On 5/4/2010 2:16 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: > >On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: > >>Enclosed is a tcpdump of a telnet connection where nothing was typed, > >>i.e. I telnetted to the smtp server and 5 seconds later the server > >>close

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Noel Jones wrote: The described behavior suggests smtpd_timeout is set for 4s, but that parameter isn't in the postconf or master.cf shown to the list. Or the poster has a front-end on his mail server, and that is why I asked for a complete log of the 'lifecycle' of the mai

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/4/2010 2:16 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: Enclosed is a tcpdump of a telnet connection where nothing was typed, i.e. I telnetted to the smtp server and 5 seconds later the server closed the connection. THIS IS NORMAL. As I said previously, type the MAIL FRO

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: Enclosed is a tcpdump of a telnet connection where nothing was typed, i.e. I telnetted to the smtp server and 5 seconds later the server closed the connection. THIS IS NORMAL. As I said previously, type the MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, and DATA commands, send a coupl

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Nataraj wrote: Noel Jones wrote: Please show the contents of your master.cf See the enclosed attachment. Thank You, Nataraj Enclosed is a tcpdump of a telnet connection where nothing was typed, i.e. I telnetted to the smtp server and 5 seconds later the server closed the connection

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/4/2010 1:29 PM, Nataraj wrote: Noel Jones wrote: Please show the contents of your master.cf See the enclosed attachment. Thank You, Nataraj The timeout for inbound smtpd is controlled by the smtpd_timeout parameter. This parameter doesn't appear to be set in the "postconf -

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Noel Jones wrote: Please show the contents of your master.cf See the enclosed attachment. Thank You, Nataraj # # Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format # of the file, see the master(5) manual page (command: "man 5 master"). # # ==

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/4/2010 11:59 AM, Nataraj wrote: Here is the complete output of postconf -n. Thanks... alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix debug

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
Here is the complete output of postconf -n. Thanks... alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 disable_vrfy_command =

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : Hi, I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer on the following problem that I'm having with postfix... I'm running postfix+pgsql-2.3.3

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Nataraj : lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : Hi, I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer on the following problem that I'm having with postfix... I'm running postfix+pgsql-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 on a CentOS 5.4

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Nataraj wrote: > > > If I telnet to port 25 I get an immediate SMTP greeting followed in > > > 10 seconds by > > > 421 4.4.2 mymail.com Error: timeout exceeded Firstly, this is meaningless. All SMTP connections will time out quickly if no initial commands are received. I

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : Hi, I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer on the following problem that I'm having with postfix... I'm running postfix+pgsql-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 on a CentOS 5.4 server. I see what lo

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Nataraj : lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : Hi, I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer on the following problem that I'm having with postfix... I'm running postfix+pgsql-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 on a CentOS 5.4 server. I see what looks likes a server in stre

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread Nataraj
lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Nataraj : Hi, I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer on the following problem that I'm having with postfix... I'm running postfix+pgsql-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 on a CentOS 5.4 server. I see what looks likes a server in stress mode as described in

Re: timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-04 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Nataraj : Hi, I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer on the following problem that I'm having with postfix... I'm running postfix+pgsql-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 on a CentOS 5.4 server. I see what looks likes a server in stress mode as described in http://www.postfix.org/S

timeout problem on inbound and outbound SMTP

2010-05-03 Thread Nataraj
Hi, I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can offer on the following problem that I'm having with postfix... I'm running postfix+pgsql-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 on a CentOS 5.4 server. I see what looks likes a server in stress mode as described in http://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html except