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Issue Lost email - postfix + milter

sroose

New Pleskian
Hi,

one week ago I upgraded my Plesk from 12.5.30 to 17.0.17. There was no specific reason, except I assumed it would be best to keep it up-to-date.

Since then, I have received some reports of missing emails from my clients. They claim that there was even no reject mail sent back. Looking a the logs, I can not find a lot of issues and most mail seems to go through, but for some claimed ones I can't find any logs.

There is one particular part in the logging which came back regularly though around the suspected time of issue:
Dec 6 07:21:32 mail /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/psa-pc-remote[22659]: handlers_stderr: SKIP
Dec 6 07:21:32 mail /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/psa-pc-remote[22659]: SKIP during call 'grey' handler
Dec 6 07:21:32 mail journal: greylisting filter[13940]: Unable to execute settings selection query: database is locked
Dec 6 07:21:32 mail journal: greylisting filter[13940]: Unable to get data from GL database
Dec 6 07:21:32 mail journal: greylisting filter[13940]: Unable to check message
Dec 6 07:21:32 mail /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/psa-pc-remote[22659]: Error during 'grey' handler

I am not sure this is the actual cause, but it gave me some questions:
- What is causing this db lock?
- Should Postfix not sent back a reject mail in case psa-pc-remote fails/crashes, or is that not guaranteed?
- Is it normal that there is still a binary from plesk-9.0 invoked when using Onyx?

Is there any other place this milter is logging?

I had a quite stable mail server up till now. What worries me most is mails getting lost without error, I can not explain this to the clients.

Thanks for any input.

Kr
Sam
 
Something wrong with GL database. Try to rebuild it with following steps:

1. Backup databases from /var/lib/plesk/mail/greylist/ just in case.
2. Rebuid them with /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk --with-spam

I hope it will help.
 
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