Well, post fix tries, but cannot connect. Sounds to me like problem at the receiving side. In any case, one question would be: is amavis part of dovecot or of postfix?

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On 28 nov. 2015, at 22:24, Edgar Pettifogging edgar@pettijohn-web.com wrote:

This should probably move to postfix list. Doesn't look like dovecot gets a chance to deliver.

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On Nov 28, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Sytse Kuijk sytse@pobox.com wrote:

Well, I tried that. I can connect a telnet session on that port and that does not refuse the connection, it sits there waiting, but I do not know the protocol so I cannot check if it does what it is supposed to.

I also checked who is listening on that port, here is the dialog:

sh-3.2# sudo lsof -i -n -P | grep 10024 perl5.18 75844 _amavisd 5u IPv4 0x866f6119e39f833d 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:10024 (LISTEN) perl5.18 75844 _amavisd 6u IPv6 0x866f6119e03f253d 0t0 TCP [::1]:10024 (LISTEN)

looks sort of correct to me…

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On 28 nov. 2015, at 18:31, Edgar Pettifogging edgar@pettijohn-web.com wrote:

I would bet that whatever is listening at 127.0.0.1 port 10024 didn't get restarted when the power came back on. Amavis perhaps or another proxy server of some sort.

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On Nov 28, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Sytse Kuijk sytse@pobox.com wrote:

Hi all,

Hope someone has been here and done that before. I am running a Mac mini with OSX server version 10.5, that is on El Capitan, but the problem I have started on Yosemite (the previous version) and did not change at all in the upgrade (I had hoped it would have solved itself).

As you might know, OSX server uses postfix and dovecot as mailing engines, good choice. Since we suffered a short power outage a little over a week ago, the mail has failed in delivering messages to the local mailboxes. We can send mail out, check the mailboxes (they never change right now),etc. but incoming mail was first just not delivered and after a week warning are sent back to the senders, telling there is a temporary problem (hope that this message is right and I can solve the issue).

What seems to go wrong is that postfix cannot connect to the local MTA. The error message that appears in several places is:

recipient=ann.cools@surikata.be offset=769 dsn_orig_rcpt=rfc822;ann.cools@surikata.be status=4.4.1 action=delayed reason=delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: Connection refused

I find all sorts of explanations and cures, but none work up to now. I tried to find lock files that might be blocking, deleted some files ending in lck with zero size, with no result. I tried to switch off the spam/virus/junk features, no difference (some mail said that messages in the queue will not get through, but new ones would. Not so, not a single message up to now). I also get alerts in the Server application, warning that:

An unassigned mail directory has been detected and is scheduled to be deleted.

The unassigned mail directory located in: /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/702C16A8-6B2D-42D8-9362-659DD2949AFC is not associated with any user account and is scheduled to be deleted in 1 days.

In the mean time no mail, and unfortunately, we need it badly.

Any suggestions?

Million thanks for your kind support.

sytse

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