Postfix/Dovecot mail server issues

[$m@Rt@$$]

Hi Guys,

We have a postfix/dovecot mail server at our premises. For some reason this thing just went and stood still this morning. I'm by all means a total linux idiot. What I kind of figured out was that one of the drives filled up to the max with log files that was preventing the mysql server from starting up. I cleared up some of those log files and got the mysql to start up. Now all the servers and services are running on the server once again but it simply is not sending or receiving mail. When send and receiving with MS Outlook it basically just hangs and does nothing.

Any gurus care to help a noob?

 

[Elite Override]

Here's a blog post to help you troubleshoot issues with postfix and dovecot.

I suggest you check the logs for both of them (as noted in that link).

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

Here's a blog post to help you troubleshoot issues with postfix and dovecot.

I suggest you check the logs for both of them (as noted in that link).

I did come across that page during my furious google session this morning but to no success.

 

[Elite Override]

I did come across that page during my furious google session this morning but to no success.

Nothing in the logs?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

^ There must be something in the logs.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Aye, something must be in the logs.

Reboot the server, access the logs and see (most especially system.log) if anything is written to the logs wrt startup failures.

Do an df -h and post the output here, want to see what your disk space status is like at the moment.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

DO NOT PANIC

Don't delete stuff at random!

 

[Elite Override]

DO NOT PANIC

Don't delete stuff at random!

Seems we lost the OP, we were too late.

@OP:

Hang on, I just realised you said you deleted files, could you post their full paths and file names? Maybe you deleted something important.