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Postfix SMTP hangs, please help!

RecreH

New Pleskian
Hello:

I have Centos 6.5 with Plesk 11.5.

My postfix SMTP service hangs (users can't send e-mails from Outlook, Mail...). If I reboot server, the service again work well, but in 20 or 24 hours (sometimes before) the SMTP hangs again!!. I tried to restart postfix but it work only some minutes, the only thing that fixes it for a few hours is a reboot.

Please, someone else happens?.

Thanks!!.
 
Have you tried to troubleshoot it with help of Plesk maillog at least? Any useful and related error messages there? Or, maybe in other logs?
 
In maillog, last occurs before hangs SMTP service is:

Oct 7 13:58:14 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[2032]: warning: milter unix:/var/spool/postfix/ctmilter/ctmilter.sock: can't read SMFIC_OPTNEG reply packet header: Connection timed out
Oct 7 13:58:14 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[2032]: warning: milter unix:/var/spool/postfix/ctmilter/ctmilter.sock: read error in initial handshake
Oct 7 13:58:14 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[2032]: NOQUEUE: milter-reject: CONNECT from unknown[89.131.80.57]: 451 4.7.1 Service unavailable - try again later; proto=SMTP
Oct 7 13:58:14 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[2032]: NOQUEUE: milter-reject: EHLO from unknown[89.131.80.57]: 451 4.7.1 Service unavailable - try again later; proto=SMTP helo=<C1HUE30H>
Oct 7 13:58:15 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[2032]: NOQUEUE: milter-reject: MAIL from unknown[89.131.80.57]: 451 4.7.1 Service unavailable - try again later; from=<abonados@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<C1HUE30H>

And 3 hours later...

Oct 7 16:55:28 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[11686]: connect from unknown[89.131.80.57]
Oct 7 16:55:58 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[11686]: warning: milter unix:/var/spool/postfix/ctmilter/ctmilter.sock: can't read SMFIC_OPTNEG reply packet header: Connection timed out
Oct 7 16:55:58 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[11686]: warning: milter unix:/var/spool/postfix/ctmilter/ctmilter.sock: read error in initial handshake
Oct 7 16:55:58 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[11686]: NOQUEUE: milter-reject: CONNECT from unknown[89.131.80.57]: 451 4.7.1 Service unavailable - try again later; proto=SMTP
Oct 7 16:55:58 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[11686]: NOQUEUE: milter-reject: EHLO from unknown[89.131.80.57]: 451 4.7.1 Service unavailable - try again later; proto=SMTP helo=<RECRESERVER>
Oct 7 16:55:59 ns305864 postfix/smtpd[11686]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[89.131.80.57]


Can it help you to know the problem?.

Thanks!!.
 
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