Quanah Gibson-Mount:
> --On Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:48 AM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> Anyone have an insight into why? Postfix version is 2.4.7.
> >>
> >> This is really a platform-specific question, that can be answered
> >> only by people who have access to the affected OS.
> >
> > Ok, but it's also something directly related to postfix. Restarting the
> > postfix process will let proxymap run again for a while, until the
> > STARTTLS failures show up again. Cleaning out the /var/spool location is
> > the only thing that permanently resolves it.
>
> Further investigation tracks this down to something failing with DNS
> resolution after a while. Don't know why, but it does seem to be a problem
> with OS X and catastrophic failure.
Since I don't maintain copies of every Postfix-enabled platform (*)
I will rely on you to provide accurate observations.
Wietse
(*) I have a couple representaive platforms running in VMware, but
that is only for testing my own Postfix distribution.
