2000 mails in queue

[NicoH]

Somehow messages dont get out of my mailq.
Inside of plesk i see this:

Messages in queue: 23 deferred, 0 held, 5 incoming, 1972 active, 0 corrupted, 2000 total.
This is not right isnt it?

#mailq says the following:

Many of...
43122BA801A* 1039 Wed Dec 30 23:38:12 double-bounce@server01.xxx.xxx
postmaster@localhost.localdomain

EE7157FA5E46* 1033 Wed Jan 20 16:41:29 double-bounce@server01.xxx.xxx
postmaster@localhost.localdomain

07D217FA6166* 1037 Sat Jan 23 04:33:10 double-bounce@server01.xxx.xxx
postmaster@localhost.localdomain

BC54E7FA27F4* 1034 Sun Jan 10 14:41:39 double-bounce@server01.xxx.xxx
postmaster@localhost.localdomain

And some of
95DE97FA5EC4 3562 Wed Jan 20 22:27:07 xxx1@xxx.xxx
(host mx01.netclusive.de[89.110.xxx.xxx] said: 421 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your reverse hostname, [85.17.xxx.xxx] (in reply to RCPT TO command))
xxx2@xxx.xxx

5077 Kbytes in 3430 Requests.

I tried

#postqueue - f
to flush the queue but this doesn't solve the problem.

I don't know how to fix the first part of messages and i've read about the second errors but my dns records seem to be ok.

 

[IgorG]

Any related errors from /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog ?

 

[NicoH]

Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 before-remote[14028]: check handlers for addr: mailing@xxx.nl
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 before-remote[14028]: check handlers for addr: info@xxx.eu
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: AAD3F7FA25D2: from=<apache@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1340, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:00:23 server01 postfix/smtpd[14260]: B5FFE7FA25D3: client=unknown[127.0.0.1]
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 postfix/smtpd[14277]: connect from unknown[127.0.0.1]
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 before-remote[14259]: check handlers for addr: apache@server01.xxx.nl
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 before-remote[14259]: check handlers for addr: xxx@gmail.com
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 postfix/cleanup[14266]: A5E9F7FA2746: message-id=<kwn6f7.l0pjm9@localhost>
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 postfix/smtpd[14283]: connect from unknown[127.0.0.1]
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 postfix/cleanup[13762]: B5FFE7FA25D3: message-id=<20100126080019.81BE97FA0F14@server01.xxx.nl>
Jan 26 08:00:23 server01 postfix/smtpd[14277]: C25927FA2760: client=unknown[127.0.0.1]
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 before-remote[14275]: check handlers for addr: apache@server01.xxx.nl
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 postfix/smtp[14257]: 81BE97FA0F14: to=<xxx@gmail.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10027, delay=4.7, delays=4.3/0.1/0.22/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B5FFE7FA25D3)
Jan 26 09:00:23 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: B5FFE7FA25D3: from=<apache@server01.morgen32.nl>, size=1514, nrcpt=1 (queue active)




Jan 26 08:57:43 server01 postfix/local[3974]: fatal: main.cf configuration error: mailbox_size_limit is smaller than message_size_limit
Jan 26 08:57:44 server01 postfix/master[15553]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 3974 exit status 1
Jan 26 08:57:44 server01 postfix/master[15553]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Jan 26 08:58:44 server01 postfix/local[7298]: fatal: main.cf configuration error: mailbox_size_limit is smaller than message_size_limit
Jan 26 08:58:45 server01 postfix/master[15553]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 7298 exit status 1
Jan 26 08:58:45 server01 postfix/master[15553]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
times 10x


Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: 47D467FA07F1: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1785, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: CD5B17FA3CED: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1034, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: A366C7FA3AEB: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1034, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: 90399BA8448: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1035, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: 446C37FA3B28: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1034, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: A43007FA5FDB: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1037, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: 47D057FA3B8C: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1034, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: 6A1D17FA3B99: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1034, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 26 08:31:16 server01 postfix/qmgr[11856]: 912C67FA39FE: from=<double-bounce@server01.xxx.nl>, size=1337, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
times 1000x



Jan 26 02:38:19 server01 before-queue[22247]: Timeout reading data from stream
Jan 26 02:38:19 server01 before-queue[22247]: Unable to read data exit status code from stream
Jan 26 02:38:19 server01 before-queue[22247]: Some error occured
Jan 26 02:38:19 server01 postfix/spawn[22246]: warning: command /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/postfix-queue exit status 255
Jan 26 02:38:19 server01 before-remote[22254]: Timeout reading data from stream
Jan 26 02:38:19 server01 before-remote[22254]: Unable to read data exit status code from stream
Jan 26 02:38:19 server01 before-remote[22254]: Some error occured
Jan 26 01:38:19 server01 postfix/smtpd[22255]: timeout after DATA from unknown[127.0.0.1]
Jan 26 01:38:19 server01 postfix/smtpd[22255]: disconnect from unknown[127.0.0.1]
Jan 26 02:38:19 server01 postfix/spawn[22248]: warning: command /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/postfix-queue exit status 255

 

[NicoH]

I think i've fixed it
The queue is now as good as empty in 5 mins

in : /etc/postfix/main.cf add

# Maximum size of Message in bytes (50MB)
message_size_limit = 52428800
mailbox_size_limit = 101200000
(last line)

See http://syscp-forum.org/index.php?topic=3984.0

 

[Hultenius]

Wonderful! I had the same problem.

So, if you set "Maximum message size" in Plesk (message_size_limit) higher than 50 MB you will experience this problem. The default value for mailbox_size_limit is 50 MB and therefore message_size_limit > mailbox_size_limit => configuration error!