On Sunday, July 2, 2023 4:16:54 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using a gentoo mail gateway for many years - its currently > running under LXC and is upgraded using a generic LXC "golden master" image > with the various email related packages being installed and config files > copied across roughly a month or two apart. This is always a trial, > particularly with permissions and has become much worse with gentoo's > attempt at using the acct packages to manage user and group ID's.
I actually find this easier to solve issues. What do you find difficult here? > The latest problem driving me up the wall is amavis-new wouldn't start after > the upgrade. I have postfix sending email to port 1024 where amavis is > listening (this time required a new setting in amavisd.conf not previously > needed) but postfix now wont accept email back from amavis on port 10025 so > mail is mostly queued (some leaks at times - no idea why). I assume you mean port 10024 ? > The main error message is: > > > Jul 2 10:00:14 mail amavis[6074]: (06074-02-3) about to connect to > smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025, JZ76UHvsOKBa FWD from <root@localdomain> -> > <wdk@localhost> Jul 2 10:00:14 mail amavis[6074]: (06074-02-3) smtp > session: setting up a new session Jul 2 10:00:14 mail amavis[6074]: > (06074-02-3) new socket using IO::Socket::IP to [127.0.0.1]:10025, timeout > 35 Jul 2 10:00:14 mail amavis[6074]: (06074-02-3) (!)connect to > [127.0.0.1]:10025 failed, attempt #1: Unrecognised protocol tcp at > /usr/sbin/amavisd line 8392. Jul 2 10:00:14 mail amavis[6074]: > (06074-02-3) mail_via_smtp: session failed: All attempts (1) failed > connecting to smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025 This is postfix rejecting the connection. Do you have the following: # grep 10025 * master.cf:127.0.0.1:10025 inet n - n - - smtpd > and what has thrown me: I can stop amavisd, then log in as user "amavis" and > run "amavisd -c /etc/amavisd.conf debug" then everything works as intended! > WHY? Does postfix start before or after amavis? > I am preparing a new mail gateway LXC image as a clean install to try and > straighten out the underlying permissions, but a fix for my current dilemma > would be appreciated! If a clean install works, I'd recommend a comparison between the 2 (start with a diff for both "/etc") to check the cause. -- Joost
