Mail stopped arriving in pop box after package upgrade

Virtualmin
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Ran a series of package upgrades on the server and since mail has stopped arriving in pop accounts how do I troubleshoot this issue?

In /vat/log/maillog

I can see the mail hitting the server see…

May 22 16:50:12 servername postfix/local[18134]: B2D6754EA1: to=sales.btw@domain.co.uk, orig_to=sales@domain.co.uk, relay=local, delay=3.8, delays=0.04/0.01/0/3.8, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail-wrapper -o -a $DOMAIN -d $LOGNAME)
May 22 16:50:12 servername postfix/qmgr[1207]: B2D6754EA1: removed
May 22 16:50:12 servername spamd[1146]: prefork: child states: II

However I don’t think it’s getting into the pop box?

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Howdy,

That part looks good – the next step would be to review the procmail logs to see where it was actually delivered.

You can do that by looking in /var/log/procmail.log.

-Eric

3

Folder: /var/mail/sales.btw 1977
Time:1337700731 From:sales@domain.co.uk To:sales@domain.co.uk User:sales.btw Size:1977 Dest:/var/mail/sales.btw Mode:None
From Chris@sender.co.uk Tue May 22 16:50:08 2012
Subject: test
Folder: /var/mail/sales.btw 10655
Time:1337701812 From:Chris@sender.co.uk To:sales@domain.co.uk User:sales.btw Size:10655 Dest:/var/mail/sales.btw Mode:None

4

Hmm, that may be a problem with the procmailrc… can you paste in the contents of your /etc/procmailrc file? Thanks!

-Eric

5

LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log
TRAP=/etc/webmin/virtual-server/procmail-logger.pl
:0wi
VIRTUALMIN=|/etc/webmin/virtual-server/lookup-domain.pl $LOGNAME
EXITCODE=$?
:0

  • ?/usr/bin/test “$EXITCODE” = “73”
    /dev/null
    EXITCODE=0
    :0
  • ?/usr/bin/test “$VIRTUALMIN” != “”
    {
    INCLUDERC=/etc/webmin/virtual-server/procmail/$VIRTUALMIN
    }
    ORGMAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
    DEFAULT=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
    DROPPRIVS=yes
    :0
    $DEFAULT
    :0
    $DEFAULT
6

Ah, yeah, those ORGMAIL and DEFAULT paths are incorrect. You can get that fixed up by setting them like this:

ORGMAIL=$HOME/Maildir/ DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
7

Thanks for this, now looking back I realise that I’ve had this exact same issue before, what can I do to stop this from happening again?

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Well, that shouldn’t normally happen – I hadn’t ever had that occur on one of my servers. So I’m not sure what might be causing that.

Do you happen to have a list of what packages updates were recently performed?

Also, which distribution/version are you using?

And do you have any third party repositories enabled?

-Eric

9

Is there a package update log that will tell me which have been updated?

10

Yup! But where it is depends on the questions I asked above :slight_smile: (in particular, your distro/version, but also knowing whether you have third party repositories enabled would really help)

-Eric

11

Sorry I’ve only added one extra repository as far as I know which is the bleeding edge one…

Operating system CentOS Linux 5.6
Webmin version 1.585
Virtualmin version 3.92.gpl GPL

12

Aha, perfect!

You can determine what packages were recently installed by reviewing “/var/log/yum.log”.

Also, what output do you receive if you type this command:

ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo

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ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo

Gives…

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Vault.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Debuginfo.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin-bleed.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin.repo

/var/log/yum.log =

May 21 09:56:11 Updated: 30:bind-libs-9.3.6-20.P1.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:56:11 Updated: 30:bind-9.3.6-20.P1.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:56:11 Updated: 30:caching-nameserver-9.3.6-20.P1.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:56:12 Updated: 30:bind-utils-9.3.6-20.P1.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:56:33 Updated: clamav-filesystem-0.97.3-1.vm.el5.centos.x86_64
May 21 09:56:33 Updated: clamav-data-0.97.3-1.vm.el5.centos.x86_64
May 21 09:56:34 Updated: clamav-lib-0.97.3-1.vm.el5.centos.x86_64
May 21 09:56:34 Updated: clamav-update-0.97.3-1.vm.el5.centos.x86_64
May 21 09:56:34 Updated: clamav-0.97.3-1.vm.el5.centos.x86_64
May 21 09:56:34 Updated: clamav-server-0.97.3-1.vm.el5.centos.x86_64
May 21 09:56:34 Updated: clamav-server-sysv-0.97.3-1.vm.el5.centos.x86_64
May 21 09:56:42 Updated: 1:httpd-2.2.3-63.1.vm.x86_64
May 21 09:56:42 Updated: 2:mod_ssl-2.2.3-63.1.vm.x86_64
May 21 09:56:54 Updated: 1:httpd-2.2.3-63.1.vm.x86_64
May 21 09:57:00 Updated: mysql-5.0.95-1.el5_7.1.x86_64
May 21 09:57:00 Updated: mysql-5.0.95-1.el5_7.1.i386
May 21 09:57:00 Updated: mysql-devel-5.0.95-1.el5_7.1.i386
May 21 09:57:00 Updated: mysql-devel-5.0.95-1.el5_7.1.x86_64
May 21 09:57:01 Updated: mysql-server-5.0.95-1.el5_7.1.x86_64
May 21 09:57:16 Updated: openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.x86_64
May 21 09:57:16 Updated: openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686
May 21 09:57:16 Updated: openssl-devel-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.x86_64
May 21 09:57:26 Updated: 4:perl-5.8.8-38.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:57:28 Updated: 4:perl-5.8.8-32.el5_7.6.i386
May 21 09:57:32 Updated: postgresql-8.1.23-1.el5_7.3.x86_64
May 21 09:57:33 Updated: postgresql-server-8.1.23-1.el5_7.3.x86_64
May 21 09:57:37 Updated: postgrey-1.34-1.noarch
May 21 09:57:42 Updated: python-libs-2.4.3-46.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:57:42 Updated: python-2.4.3-46.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:57:47 Updated: ruby-libs-1.8.5-24.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:57:47 Updated: ruby-1.8.5-24.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:57:48 Updated: ruby-libs-1.8.5-24.el5.i386
May 21 09:57:48 Updated: ruby-irb-1.8.5-24.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:57:48 Updated: ruby-devel-1.8.5-24.el5.i386
May 21 09:57:48 Updated: ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-24.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:57:48 Updated: ruby-devel-1.8.5-24.el5.x86_64
May 21 09:57:53 Updated: subversion-1.6.11-10.el5_8.x86_64
May 21 09:57:53 Updated: subversion-1.6.11-10.el5_8.i386
May 21 09:57:53 Updated: mod_dav_svn-1.6.11-10.el5_8.x86_64
May 21 09:58:15 Updated: usermin-1.505-1.noarch
May 21 09:58:20 Updated: 2:wbm-security-updates-4.4-1.noarch
May 21 09:59:17 Updated: wbm-virtual-server-3.92.gpl-2.noarch
May 21 09:59:21 Updated: 2:wbm-virtualmin-awstats-4.7-1.noarch
May 21 09:59:25 Updated: 2:wbm-virtualmin-init-2.3-1.noarch
May 21 09:59:29 Updated: 2:wbm-virtualmin-registrar-2.1-1.noarch
May 21 09:59:35 Updated: 2:wbt-virtual-server-theme-8.4-1.noarch
May 21 10:00:26 Updated: webmin-1.585-1.noarch

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Hmm, none of those apps are email related – so in theory, the culprit shouldn’t be any of those.

And as you had mentioned, I don’t see any unusual repositories enabled.

ATM, it seems to be a mystery :slight_smile:

-Eric