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Subject:    [SM-USERS] =?utf-8?q?_Re=3A__Why_did_Squirrelmail_1=2E49a=2C_dove?=
From:       "Tomas Kuliavas" <tokul () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2009-10-28 11:54:16
Message-ID: 45386.c316b4e9.1256730856.nsm () avilys ! eik ! lt
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2009.10.28 07:11 TGPlatt, WebMaster rašė:
> I need advice please.
> 
> We're running the OldStable version of Debian Etch from August 2008
> (vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-amd64). We've been using squirrelmail (1.4.9a-2007)
> connecting through Dovecot's IMAP (1.0.rc15-2) and Pop3 (1.0.rc15-2)
> servers
> ever since then to provide either SSH or TLS/SSL connections to postfix
> (2.3.8-2+et) mail via SquirrelMail on our server. Although the SSL
> capability is installed, we're not using it -- choosing to use SSH with
> strong passwords instead.
> 
> This configuration has given us NO problems since we started 14 months
> ago... until today. For unexplained reasons this morning the IMAP
> interface
> suddenly began refusing or failing connections to everyone trying to
> connect
> through SquirrelMail (or that's the way it looks from the outside). It
> also
> fails to send out any emails. I tried rebooting the server but that made
> [i]almost[/i] no difference
....
> When I checked the /var/log/mail.err log, I found the following series of
> seemingly useless error messages:
...
> /var/mail/mymailname Oct 26 01:01:06 axx012503 postfix/sendmail[30523]:
> fatal: root(0): queue file write error Oct 26 15:06:53 axx012503 dovecot:
...
> They seem useless because I frankly can't make heads nor tails out of what
> they're telling me.
> 
> That's it. I've racked my brain all day on this and I'm no closer to a
> solution now than I was when the problem was reported 14 hours ago. At
> this
> point, any hints, helpful suggestions or questions would be appreciated!

Check disk usage on your mail server. Are you sure that partition with
/var/ directory has enough free space.

Make sure that disk is not failing. Check kernel log for disk related
error messages.

Check your mail queue and make sure that it is not filled with spam.

-- 
Tomas



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