Configuration of Mail Server

[Roland Hill]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 or thereabouts, Petter Adsen came forth with:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:57:46 -0600
> "Arch Brooks" <arch at archbrooks.com> wrote:

> > Hello Iceblink,

> > I proceeded with the trouble shooting section.

> > Escaping chroot

> > I did a telnet session with 25 at the end of the line and here is the
> > output:

> > Trying 162.212.131.24...
> > Connected to server.archbrooks.us.
> > Escape character is '^]'.

> > telnet>
> > It looks like it connected.

> > Then I did a tail of the error messages and got the following:
> > Sep  8 09:28:43 server postfix/submission/smtpd[30635]: message repeated 3
> > times: [ fatal: bad numerical configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s]
> > Sep 24 10:03:54 server postfix/submission/smtpd[30713]: fatal: bad numerical
> > configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s
> > Sep 17 03:58:47 server postfix/smtps/smtpd[30903]: message repeated 3 times:
> > [ fatal: bad numerical configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s]
> > Sep 17 04:03:52 server postfix/smtpd[30941]: message repeated 2 times: [
> > fatal: bad numerical configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s]
> > Sep 22 23:36:08 server postfix/smtpd[30907]: message repeated 2 times: [
> > fatal: bad numerical configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s]
> > Sep 17 04:27:16 server postfix/smtps/smtpd[31131]: message repeated 4 times:
> > [ fatal: bad numerical configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s]
> > Sep 20 02:04:44 server postfix/submission/smtpd[31186]: fatal: bad numerical
> > configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s
> > Sep 23 00:12:45 server postfix/smtpd[31187]: message repeated 3 times: [
> > fatal: bad numerical configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s]
> > Sep 24 10:27:27 server postfix/smtpd[31212]: fatal: bad numerical
> > configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s
> > Sep 24 10:28:28 server postfix/smtpd[31213]: fatal: bad numerical
> > configuration: smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s

> > I then Googled "smtpd_hard_error_limit = 20s" I found no definitive answer
> > with the Google resuts.

> I would think that there is an error in your configuration, "20s" is
> probably not an appropriate value for the "smtpd_hard_error_limit"
> parameter - it should probably be a plain integer.

> Find out what configuration file contains this parameter, set it to an
> appropriate value (or comment it out if you do not need to change the
> default) and restart postfix.

> NOTE: I do not know postfix well enough to know for certain that this
> is the problem and how to fix it, this is simply what I would guess from
> reading the error message.

> Petter

Hi,

I've run postfix for years (currrently on a ubuntu 15.04 box) and I can't
say I have ever edited the smtpd_hard_error_limit variable.

This is what my system is set to:

smtpd_hard_error_limit = ${stress?1}${stress:20}

See if that helps at all.

-- 
Regards,

Roland

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