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Hi,

I got this problem in V 3.0.0.8 and after the update. For an unknown reason suddenly the mails hang in the inbound queue. After a few postfix restarts mails getting delivered.

In the maillog no error that could cause this issue. The only thing I found after the update is:

Mar 30 19:11:02 mx2 postfix[4200]: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings
Mar 30 19:11:02 mx2 postfix[4200]: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details
Mar 30 19:11:02 mx2 postfix[4200]: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload"
Mar 30 19:11:02 mx2 postfix/postfix-script[4224]: stopping the Postfix mail system
Mar 30 19:11:02 mx2 postfix/master[664]: terminating on signal 15
Mar 30 19:11:02 mx2 MailScanner[26363]: Requeue: 602B6120157.ACA1F to 7B78C120080
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix[4260]: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix[4260]: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix[4260]: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload"
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix/postfix-script[4266]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix[4269]: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix[4269]: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix[4269]: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload"
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix/postfix-script[4341]: starting the Postfix mail system
Mar 30 19:11:03 mx2 postfix/master[4343]: daemon started -- version 3.0.4, configuration /etc/postfix

I wanted to change as described below but in my main.cf file I do not have the postconf compatibility_level option.

Anyone an idea?

Hi there

And today again.... Mails get suck in the inbound queue and aren't processed until restarting mailscanner and flushing the queue.

What could be wrong?

How much memory are you allocating to EFA?

Is mailscanner running or dead when this happens?

efa_user wrote:Hi,

I wanted to change as described below but in my main.cf file I do not have the postconf compatibility_level option.

Anyone an idea?

This is normal when moving from Postfix 2x to 3x. You can add this option to main.cf if you are ready to leave compatibility mode.

Hi,

thanks for your answers. But I don't think that it is a memory probl. Here:

Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz, 8 cores
Real memory: 5.71 GB total
Virtual memory : 4 GB total

When testing the services, Mailscanner, Postfix and clamd are running....

> You can add this option to main.cf if you are ready to leave compatibility mode
And where should I put it? Can you paste this please?

If you did an upgrade to 3.0.9:

backup your main.cf : cp /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main.cf.copy

checkout the differences: diff /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main.cf.rpmnew

add this to /etc/postfix/main.cf:

compatibility_level = 2

# SMTP UTF8 support (requires EAI support compiled in)
smtputf8_enable = no

meta_directory = /etc/postfix
hlib_directory = no

and reload:
/etc/init.d/postfix reload

Hi,

thanks for your answer. No idea why mails get suck in the inbound queue and aren't processed until restarting mailscanner and flushing the queue.

Hi,

hanging again today. So what could be wrong with the EFA?