"timed out while receiving the initial server greeting" mail stalled why?

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"timed out while receiving the initial server greeting" mail stalled why?

"relay=none, delay=2473, delays=1880/593/0/0.01, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: conversation with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] timed out while receiving the initial server greeting)"

server stalling mail in queue

perl5.10.0 amavsid running in Activity Monitor at 100%

haven't changed anything, just started today.

Any suggestions?

Intel iMacs, Mac Mini's, Macbook Pro, iPhone 3G, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 7, 2010 11:30 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 8, 2010 12:10 AM in response to Brian Guam Engineer

postfix and amavis might be out of sync.

open terminal
tail -f /var/log/mail.log

watch your log, postfix will report what the trouble is, don't snip the log,

serveradmin stop mail
postqueue -p
postsuper -r ALL
serveradmn start mail

watch your log. also make sure your firewall is not doing anything goofey with 127.0.0.1

if the server has been running for a log time,.. some programs leak. eventually you have to kick services at least.

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