From andreasp@qbcon.com Sun Feb 8 14:22:16 2004 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:44:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Andreas Pauley To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: unknown mail transport error Hi, I'm suddenly having some strange postfix problems. I've got a lot of mail stuck in the queue, refusing to go out, e.g: 36385F6C 2951 Wed Jan 28 14:03:47 MAILER-DAEMON (unknown mail transport error) debby@nai.com New mail from outside seems to be accepted and delivered to local mailboxes (I'm not sure if this will always be the case). New mail from the server destined elsewhere get stuck in the queue. Postfix version: 1.1.6 OS: OpenBSD 3.1 The server experienced a sudden power outage, after which it started giving these problems. >From my maillog, if I do a "postfix reload": """ Jan 28 18:17:18 mail postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system Jan 28 18:17:18 mail postfix/master[23403]: reload configuration Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: 52454F88: from=<>, size=2534, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: 20B24F83: from=<>, size=2526, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: 00C33F7B: from=<>, size=3049, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: 036B1F7C: from=<>, size=35320, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: AC866F84: from=<>, size=3589, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: 9A77FF86: from=<>, size=3592, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: BBC46F81: from=<>, size=3632, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: 12CBBF85: from=<>, size=2542, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:17:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: 681F1F87: from=<>, size=3079, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[18860]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[29422]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[12380]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[7501]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[376]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[496]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[30057]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[20515]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:04 mail postfix/smtp[18991]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:18:05 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: warning: premature end-of-input from private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name Jan 28 18:18:05 mail postfix/master[23403]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 18860 exit status 1 Jan 28 18:18:05 mail postfix/master[23403]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling Jan 28 18:18:05 mail postfix/master[23403]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 29422 exit status 1 Jan 28 16:18:05 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response Jan 28 16:18:05 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description """ (the last block of warnings get repeated a few times) >From my maillog, if I try to send an email from the postfix server: """ Jan 28 16:50:18 mail postfix/pickup[29439]: 66792F90: uid=0 from= Jan 28 16:50:18 mail postfix/cleanup[22046]: 66792F90: message-id=<20040128165018.66792F90@mail.nampharm.com.na> Jan 28 16:50:18 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: 66792F90: from=, size=312, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 28 16:50:18 mail postfix/smtp[10487]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Jan 28 16:50:19 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: warning: premature end-of-input from private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name Jan 28 18:50:19 mail postfix/master[23403]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 10487 exit status 1 Jan 28 18:50:19 mail postfix/master[23403]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling Jan 28 16:50:19 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response Jan 28 16:50:19 mail postfix/qmgr[9553]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description """ I'm guessing that the "previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record" is this one: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Thanks for your time. Regards, Andreas.