RE: Bounce or trace service failure?

Thanks Wietse - I believe these are the relevent bits from /var/log/mail:

Jan 27 08:34:25 relay postfix/bounce[23312]: fatal: lock file bounce
256EB6155: Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 27 08:34:26 relay postfix/bounce[23342]: fatal: lock file bounce
256EB6155: Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 27 08:34:26 relay postfix/smtp[23287]: warning: premature end-of-input
on private/bounce socket while reading input attribute name
Jan 27 08:34:26 relay postfix/master[721]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/bounce pid 23312 exit status 1
Jan 27 08:34:26 relay postfix/master[721]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/bounce:
bad command startup -- throttling
Jan 27 08:34:26 relay postfix/bounce[23348]: fatal: lock file bounce
256EB6155: Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 27 08:34:27 relay postfix/bounce[23364]: fatal: lock file bounce
256EB6155: Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 27 08:34:27 relay postfix/smtp[23317]: warning: premature end-of-input
on private/bounce socket while reading input attribute name
Jan 27 08:34:27 relay postfix/master[721]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/bounce pid 23342 exit status 1
Jan 27 08:34:27 relay postfix/smtp[23313]: warning: premature end-of-input
on private/bounce socket while reading input attribute name
Jan 27 08:34:27 relay postfix/master[721]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/bounce pid 23348 exit status 1
Jan 27 08:34:28 relay postfix/smtp[23352]: warning: premature end-of-input
on private/bounce socket while reading input attribute name
Jan 27 08:34:28 relay postfix/master[721]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/bounce pid 23364 exit status 1
Jan 27 08:34:32 relay postfix/bounce[23427]: fatal: lock file bounce
256EB6155: Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 27 08:34:33 relay postfix/smtp[23359]: warning: premature end-of-input
on private/bounce socket while reading input attribute name
Jan 27 08:34:33 relay postfix/master[721]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/bounce pid 23427 exit status 1

regards,
Paul
--
Paul Hutchings
Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd.
Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378
mailto:paul.hutchings@mira.co.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wietse@porcupine.org [mailto:wietse@porcupine.org]
> Sent: 27 January 2004 12:54
> To: Paul Hutchings
> Cc: 'postfix-users@postfix.org'
> Subject: Re: Bounce or trace service failure?
>
>
> Paul Hutchings:
> > One of our users has just sent out a mailshot to 450
> recipients.. not a
> > common occurence by our usual standards.
> >
> > Whilst most have been delivered, or deferred for the
> "usual" reasons, I have
> > a few that are visible via mailq as "(bounce or trace
> service failure)".
> >
> > I'm running Suse 9.0 with the latest snapshot from Carsten
> Hoegers Suse
> > rpms.
> >
> > I know things like this are usually logs logs logs, but i'm
> having trouble
> > knowing exactly which bits are relevant, this is a line for
> one of the
> > recipients with this status, i'm hoping obscuring the
> email/ip doesn't
> > matter too much -
>
> Look for obvious signs of trouble
> =================================
>
> Postfix logs all failed and successful deliveries to a logfile. The
> file is usually called /var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail; the exact
> pathname is defined in the syslog.conf file.
>
> First look for errors that prevent Postfix from working at all:
>
> % egrep '(warning|error|fatal|panic):' /some/log/file | more
>
> Note: the most important message is near the BEGINNING of the output.
> Error messages that come later are less useful.
>
> > Jan 27 08:34:35 relay postfix/smtp[23359]: 256EB6155:
> > to=<someone@somedomain.com>,
> relay=mail.somedomain.com[1.2.3.4, delay=33,
> > status=deferred (bounce or trace service failure)
> >
> > the domain is valid and has MX records, though from a quick
> look through the
> > logs for previous mail to this recipient it would appear
> the local part may
> > not be valid.
> >
> > TIA for any pointers,
> >
> > regards,
> > Paul
> > --
> > Paul Hutchings
> > Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd.
> > Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378
> > mailto:paul.hutchings@mira.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
>