Mail Piling Up In Queue

Question

Seem to be having a few problems and I'm not sure if they're separate issues or connected ones. Seems I need to get my "mail" house in order, but don't know where to start; I'm pretty new server admin. Had the mail server sending and receiving mail, but it just stopped one day. Not sure if it was an update I made, or something I didn't update and should be doing.
1. need to update ClamAV? currently running 0.88.5, recommended 0.88.7
2. amavisd problem?
Dec 26 19:08:09 my.server.com /usr/bin/amavisd[18292]: starting. /usr/bin/amavisd at my.server.com amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102), Unicode aware
Dec 26 19:08:09 my.server.com /usr/bin/amavisd[18292]: user=, EUID: 0 (0); group=, EGID: 0 0 (0 0)
Dec 26 19:08:09 my.server.com /usr/bin/amavisd[18292]: Perl version 5.008006
Dec 26 19:08:09 my.server.com /usr/bin/amavisd[18292]: Net::Server: 2006/12/26-19:08:09 Couldn't open pid file "/var/amavis/amavisd.pid" [No such file or directory].\n\n at line 268 in file /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/Net/Server.pm
Dec 26 19:08:09 my.server.com /usr/bin/amavisd[18292]: Net::Server: 2006/12/26-19:08:09 Server closing!
3. postfix problem? SMTP log:
Dec 26 20:47:18 server postfix/qmgr[18228]: F07D886C68: to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=334187, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection refused)
Dec 26 20:47:42 server postfix/smtp[19389]: connect to mx.futurequest.net[69.5.6.174]: Operation timed out (port 25)
Some not sure why the local host 127.0.0.1 rejects mail to a user I've set up in Workgroup Manager. (First log entry above)
I've got some dozens of messages that aren't getting through to me that I would like to read, but can't get delivered.
Don't get much spam yet, but the second log entry is a typical one. How do I prevent spam from building up in the queue, since most are sent to users/email accounts that aren't real? All I've done so far is in: Mail > Settings > Relay "Refuse all messages from these hosts and networks".
4. Have server set-up as an open directory master, but something must be funny, since I keep getting this message:
Dec 26 20:44:11 my.server.com kadmin.local[19356](info): No dictionary file specified, continuing without one.
For some reason, access for users I've defined in Workgroup Manager sequentially get dropped. It's easy to re-click "access account" for each user, but this isn't a solution!
Any help would be much appreciated, since I feel like I'm shooting in the dark on many of these issues. If nothing else, please point me in the right direction or post a link so I can study and learn.
Thank you =)

Answer 1

Hi Dale,
Thanks for the post. If I did delete or change something related to amavisd-new (since amavisd doesn't appear to be there), how would I get it back?
Might also be helpful for you all to know that I did install HenWen months ago, but didn't have much luck getting the software to work as desired. I haven't been using it, since it (esp. snort) did weird things to my system (using 100% processing power at times for no particular reason that I could identify). Perhaps the software tricked something out? Wish I knew. For more basic overview of HenWen see: http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/henwen.html
sigh
Here are the results of the unix commands listed:
One:
ls -lsa /private/var
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x 30 root wheel 1020 Dec 24 23:05 .
0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Dec 24 23:05 ..
0 drwxr-xr-x 5 daemon wheel 170 Oct 22 2005 at
0 drwxr-x--- 2 root admin 68 Oct 19 2005 audit
0 drwx------ 3 root wheel 102 Aug 10 03:15 backups
0 drwxr-xr-x 6 clamav clamav 204 Dec 28 19:23 clamav
0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Aug 22 2005 cron
0 drwxr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1054 Dec 28 19:13 db
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 68 Aug 22 2005 empty
0 drwxr-xr-x 16 cyrusima mail 544 Dec 28 19:23 imap
0 drwxr-x--- 6 jabber jabber 204 Aug 22 2005 jabber
0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 29 14:22 launchd
0 drwxr-xr-x 101 root wheel 3434 Dec 28 03:15 log
0 drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 68 Aug 22 2005 mail
0 drwxrwsr-x 9 root mailman 306 Aug 22 2005 mailman
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Aug 22 2005 msgs
0 drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 Dec 26 18:27 named
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Aug 22 2005 netboot
0 drwxr-x--- 7 root wheel 238 Dec 27 19:12 root
0 drwxrwxr-x 55 root daemon 1870 Dec 28 19:12 run
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Aug 22 2005 rwho
0 drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 612 Sep 19 20:44 samba
0 drwxr-xr-x 30 root wheel 1020 Aug 9 21:53 servermgrd
0 drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Aug 5 19:31 spool
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Aug 24 2005 swupd
0 drwxrwxrwt 15 root wheel 510 Dec 24 23:05 tmp
0 drwxr-x--- 2 clamav clamav 68 Aug 22 2005 virusmails
0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 24 23:05 vm
0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Oct 20 2005 xgrid
0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Oct 19 2005 yp
Two:
ls -lsa /private/var/amavis
ls: /private/var/amavis: No such file or directory
(certainly could be the problem—above)
Three:
ls -lsa /private/var/clamav
total 16368
0 drwxr-xr-x 6 clamav clamav 204 Dec 28 19:23 .
0 drwxr-xr-x 30 root wheel 1020 Dec 24 23:05 ..
0 drwx------ 4 clamav clamav 136 Oct 2 01:00 .spamassassin
2832 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 1447910 Dec 28 19:07 daily.cvd
8 -rw-rw---- 1 clamav clamav 4 Dec 28 19:23 freshclam.pid
13528 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 6924820 Dec 26 19:07 main.cvd
Best wishes and thanks