local delivery of mail fail, log files completely empty

[Dan Shoop]

On Nov 1, 2007, at 4:10 AM, Markus Ruggiero wrote:

> all of a sudden my Tiger Server (10.4.10) started to have problems.  
> Mail is queued for local delivery but each and any message shows  
> with the error: "connect to 127.0.0.1, connection refused".

What was trying to connect?

> Clicking the retry in Server Admin->mail->maintenance->mail-queue  
> does not help, still the same error. This started around yesterday  
> morning (31 okt). Since then several 100 mails have accumulated in  
> the queue.

Have you tried restarting postfix? Tried requeuing?

> I have not done anything to the server recently other than  
> installed openvpn about one week ago. During my analysis I saw  
> something else very strange: all the mail server log files of the  
> last 7 days are empty (zero bytes!).

So is postfix running? What do other logs say?

> No smtp log, no any other mail related log containing any byte! I  
> have already repaired permission (only repairs needed for iTunes  
> directories, no system or mail related dirs) and rebooted the  
> server. This is damn weird. Anyone has any clue as to what is going  
> on and where I could look further?

Your other logs. Your running processes.

-dhan

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