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[peterwynne]

Hi there,

I'm having problems where mail seems to be queuing for no obvious reason. Bandwith seems fine.

These are appearing in the realtime log:


Nov 19 12:10:28 bounce 5831 fatal: epoll_create: Too many open files
Nov 19 12:10:29 master 3251 warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/bounce pid 5831 exit status 1
Nov 19 12:10:29 master 3251 warning: /usr/lib/postfix/bounce: bad command startup -- throttling

Nov 19 12:11:00 lmtp 5852 fatal: epoll_create: Too many open files
Nov 19 12:11:01 master 3251 warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/lmtp pid 5852 exit status 1
Nov 19 12:11:01 master 3251 warning: /usr/lib/postfix/lmtp: bad command startup -- throttling

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[peterwynne]

also..... if there is a large amount of mail queued for a particular domain, is there any way of deleting just the e-mail for that domain from the queue?

 

[dietmar]

On what hardware or virtual environment do you run?

 

[peterwynne]

its running on a dell 1800 server, not virtualised.

Uptime12:25:01 up 00:33, load average: 0.62, 2.86, 4.19CPU(s)2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHzPhysical Memory (2023MB/542MB)

Swap Space (1023MB/0MB)

HD Space (136691MB/2118MB)

Version (package/version/build)proxmox-mailgateway/2.3/4009Kernel VersionLinux 2.6.27-1-proxmox #1 SMP Thu Feb 5 12:28:31 CET 2009

Uptime 12:25:01 up 00:33, load average: 0.62, 2.86, 4.19
CPU(s) 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
Physical Memory (2023MB/542MB)
Swap Space (1023MB/0MB)
HD Space (136691MB/2118MB)
Version (package/version/build) proxmox-mailgateway/2.3/4009
Kernel Version Linux 2.6.27-1-proxmox #1 SMP Thu Feb 5 12:28:31 CET 2009

 

[dietmar]

Did you enable OCR? If so, please try without.

 

[peterwynne]

no, OCR is not enabled.

 

[peterwynne]

any ideas?

 

[dietmar]

How many times do you get that error? Maybe you can send us the syslogs for further analysis (to support@proxmox.com)

 

[peterwynne]

sorry for my ignorance, but how do I export the syslogs?

the error appeared every minute or so, for about an hour. I was having issues with a large amount of spam mail queued trying to go out from inside.

Hence my other question, is there a way of deleting mail sitting in outbound queue going to a particular domain, rather than a blanket delete all?

 

[dietmar]

sorry for my ignorance, but how do I export the syslogs?

use 'scp' to copy it, then zip and send via email.

Hence my other question, is there a way of deleting mail sitting in outbound queue going to a particular domain, rather than a blanket delete all?

you can use the 'mailq' command to get a list of all queued main. You can delete specific mails with postsuper command ("man postsuper"). Do delete all mails to a particular domain you need to do some scripting.