[Systems] Sunjammer SMTP server went down for a day

[Srevin Saju]

I did check status before restarting, the postfix service was running, 
and there was a couple of reloads which completed successfully. There 
were a few warnings in journalctl, but nothing which happened on 28th 
February. The last warning happened last week.

On 3/2/21 5:29 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On 02/03/2021 02.44, Srevin Saju wrote:
>> To be specific, the downtime lasted for 28 hours and 1 minute.
>
> Anything interesting in the journal around the time it went down?
>
>> On 3/1/21 8:28 PM, Srevin Saju wrote:
>>> I am not sure why it happened, but I realized that it wasn't 
>>> receiving any emails since 28 February 2021.
>>>
>>> Connecting to 209.51.188.53
>>> 3/1/2021 11:11:35 AM Connection attempt #1 - Unable to connect after 
>>> 15 seconds. [15.02 sec]
>>>
>>> LookupServer 15151ms
>>>
>>> So, I just did `sudo systemctl restart postfix`
>>>
>>> which seems to have fixed the problem.
>>>
>>> Sunjammer was having some disk and load problems, which likely 
>>> killed the postfix server.
>>>
>>>
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