RE: Bounce or trace service failure?

Just to add, it looks like all the addresses affected by this later bounced
due to localpart or or domain errors - the bounces look to be valid, just
not sure on the trace error stuff..

sorry if the logs dont wrap too well.. outlook i'm afraid..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hutchings
> Sent: 27 January 2004 13:20
> To: 'postfix-users@postfix.org'
> Subject: 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>