From: John on
All:

I am home-hosting a postfix email server and I noticed that some outgoing
messages get rejected while others don't. I'm curious if my log data
reveals the reason why and if there is anything I can do to optimize how
many email servers accept my messages - which aren't SPAM by the way.

The log data is below.

Thanks in advance.

John


--------------------- postfix Begin ------------------------



140450 bytes transferred
15 messages sent
4 messages removed from queue

SASL Authentication failed from: 1 Host(s), 9 Time(s)

SASL Authenticated messages from: 1 Host(s), 2 Time(s)

Connections lost:
Connection lost while AUTH : 7 Time(s)
Connection lost while RCPT : 1 Time(s)


Process exited:
Exit status 1:
/usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: 5 Time(s)
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: 1417 Time(s)


Unrecognized warning:
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling : 1417 Time(s)
SASL authentication failure: realm changed: authentication aborted : 9 Time(s)
dict_nis_init: NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled : 8 Time(s)
support for restriction "check_relay_domains" will be removed from Postfix; use "reject_unauth_destination" instead : 3 Time(s)


**Unmatched Entries**

fatal: open lock file pid/unix.relay: cannot open file: Permission denied
fatal: timeout connecting to transport: relay
fatal: open lock file pid/unix.relay: cannot open file: Permission denied
fatal: open lock file pid/unix.relay: cannot open file: Permission denied