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Broken redirection in Plesk 10.4.4 Linux Postfix - broken pipe, LOG found problem

jorge ceballos

Regular Pleskian
Hi everyone

My server was recently used to send thousands of emails through a valid webmail mailbox due to a weak passwd.
After nailing down the problem and disabling webmail for that domain, the situation came under control again but now I noticed redirection is no longer working.

Postfix was not touched at all except for http://kb.parallels.com/en/114845 suggestion; whose result was null as spam was not being sent through a script; still the link was removed and everything was back to normal.
Also did /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk --with-spam which came out with out problem.
Everything I have found is regarding handlers rebuild for Plesk 10.2 and 10.3

Jan 16 13:29:51 ns3 postfix/pipe[14097]: 6A6D045D80B5: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=plesk_virtual, delay=4701, delays=4701/0.01/0/0.2, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: sh: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory 4.2.1 Message can not be delivered at this time )
Jan 16 13:29:51 ns3 postfix-local[14105]: files: write buf 0x7fff333c3500[4096] to fd (7) error - (32) Broken pipe
Jan 16 13:29:51 ns3 postfix-local[14105]: files: cannot write chuck from 5 to 7 - (32) Broken pipe
Jan 16 13:29:51 ns3 postfix-local[14105]: LOG Unable to forward message to: [email protected]
Jan 16 13:29:51 ns3 postfix-local[14105]: LOG found problems in executed program



Any idea anyone?

Thanks in advance

Jorge


**UPDATE**

Last night tried to swing back to Qmail unsuccessfully.
Plesk auto install script stopped after starting installation saying "Cannot continue, your system may be inoperable".
Reinstalled Postfix and everything went back to normal, except for this redirection issue.

Recreated handlers to no avail.

Finally recreated http://kb.parallels.com/en/114845 in order to find out something missed along the way.
Found out that there's no /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix file nor /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-bin while /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-wrapper does exists as mail works.

Any idea?

I remember that in sendmail there was a way to have forwarding done modifying some inner files.
Is that possible with postfix?
Some customers depend on redirection of emails for business.

TIA.

Regards
 
Last edited:
IGOR or someone else savvy on Plesk's postfix, can you please confirm this post: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?85458-Mail-Redirect-Doesn-t-Work-Right-With-Postfix

I'm confused as the author talks about /usr/sbin/sendmail meanwhile http://kb.parallels.com/en/114845 talks about /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

which of these links are the correct or am I missing one?

# ls -la /etc/alternatives/mta
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jan 18 01:36 /etc/alternatives/mta -> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

# ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
ls: /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix: No such file or directory

# ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 20 00:54 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta



Thanks for your help,

Regards.
 
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