efe queueing mail gets stuck until reboot.

[DrDomino]

Hi There,

I have installed efa having been an old ESVA user.
I have used it for a customers mail filtering but the queue slowly fills up over a period of a few hours whilst letting some emails through. It always report a timeout to the mail server which is local and on the same subnet.
efa 10.0.254.16
mailserver 10.0.254.11

If I use any tool to check the smtp connectivity it works every time without fail on both boxes (EFA and the smtp server). either locally or via the public IP addresses that are natted to these two boxes.

I have tried to flush the mail queue in webadmin but it has no effect.
The only thing that works is a reboot of efa. As soon as it reboots all the mail is instantly delivered. The queue is ok for a bit and slowly starts to back up again.

Generally the efa box adds quite a delay anyway to the delivery to the end users server which I am not keen on.

The box is straight from the download site running on HA set of servers and a SAN on Hyper-V in my own Data Center Cabinet. There are no hardware issues. The box has 4 cores and 4gb RAM allocated. The only amendment I did from the vanilla box is to extend the VAR partition.

Help would be appreciated as I have had to bypass efa at the moment.
Mark

[shawniverson]

Is the inbound or outbound queue stacking up?

[DrDomino]

Hi, It is the outbound queue, mail waiting to be sent to our mail server after being filtered.

[shawniverson]

Ok, the outbound queue is controlled with postfix. Can you post what is happening based on contents of /var/log/maillog during this time?