Random mail arrival failure. SMTP log reports arrival, user never gets it

Our 10.5.4 Mail server has become progressively less and less reliable over a period of months. I can reproduce repeatable (but inconsistent) instances of mails sent to us and failing to arrive. The weirdness even extends to emails sent from outside to multiple recipients on our server *in the same email*, and where some of the recipients get it and the others don't (while the non-recipients are randomly receiving other mails OK). Or, an external sender sending an email while I'm on the phone with him, it failing to arrive (and never does), and then a resend half an hour later arrives immediately.
Needless to say, confidence in our mail server is plummeting.
The OS-X Server mail log *actually records a mail arrival event* even when the user never gets the email, thus:
Aug 6 13:15:42 dreadnought postfix/smtpd[14462]: connect from sonar.wycliffe.nsw.edu.au[192.168.9.100]
Aug 6 13:15:42 dreadnought postfix/smtpd[14462]: 39D248C515F: client=sonar.wycliffe.nsw.edu.au[192.168.9.100]
Aug 6 13:15:42 dreadnought postfix/cleanup[14464]: 39D248C515F: message-id=<[email protected].l ocal>
Aug 6 13:15:42 dreadnought postfix/qmgr[100]: 39D248C515F: from=<[email protected]>, size=29520, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 6 13:15:42 dreadnought postfix/smtpd[14462]: disconnect from sonar.wycliffe.nsw.edu.au[192.168.9.100]
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/smtpd[14471]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/smtpd[14471]: 0BBFE8C5170: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/cleanup[14465]: 0BBFE8C5170: message-id=<[email protected].l ocal>
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/qmgr[100]: 0BBFE8C5170: from=<[email protected]>, size=29969, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/smtpd[14471]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/smtp[14466]: 39D248C515F: to=<[email protected]>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.85, delays=0.01/0/0.01/0.83, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 0BBFE8C5170)
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/qmgr[100]: 39D248C515F: removed
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/pipe[14473]: 0BBFE8C5170: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.23, delays=0.01/0/0/0.21, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)
Aug 6 13:15:43 dreadnought postfix/qmgr[100]: 0BBFE8C5170: removed
...and the upstream mail filter (sonar in this case, our virus and spam filter) corroborates that an email arrived as well. But, as I said, the user (me) +never got this email+. Numerous other users report the same experience. Some mails arriving at our mail server simply never get put into inboxes and disappear. Poof.
The only lead I have is multiple instances of the following message in the console at (roughly) the same time as the mail arrival failure:
*6/08/08 1:15:00 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (0x11a220.cron[14553]) Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access.*
I have taken to rebooting the server twice daily to reduce the frequency of these occurrences. The machine is a G5 XServe hosting 700 accounts in a School.

In the log example quoted above, ignore all the http:// references. Apple's discussions software is assuming the square brackets in the log mean "insert URL"

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May 23 13:57:09 mail postfix/smtpd[1343]: 60FF95E132: client=unknown[142.27.144.50]
May 23 13:57:09 mail postfix/cleanup[1346]: 60FF95E132: message-id=<[email protected]@SMS>
May 23 13:57:09 mail postfix/qmgr[2532]: 60FF95E132: from=<[email protected]>, size=1017, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
May 23 13:57:09 mail postfix/smtpd[1343]: disconnect from unknown[142.27.144.50]
The email access log has already scrolled farther than the emails in my list, so I won't include that unless asked.
Thanks in advance for any help offered.
Jeff
Intel X-Serve, X-Serve RAID, all kinds of other goodies Mac OS X (10.4.9) Support about 2000 Macs

A wealth of information on configuring/troubleshooting your email server can be found at:
http://osx.topicdesk.com/
I know your issues isn't particularly with SPAM, however I would try to following this tutorial on "Frontline SPAM Defense":
http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/38/62/
This fixed many of my email server issues. I would try this first.

No SMTP log after upgrade to Server 4.0.3

I just updated my server to 4.0.3 and I initially had an error message saying that a script was not owned by postfix repeated in the SMTP log file.
First I tried to fix it with disk utility but it didn't work.
So in Terminal I did: sudo chown _postfix /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mta/./guid_device_maps.plist
Now I have no SMTP log showing in the server menu any ideas on how to get it back is very welcome.
Kind regards
Peter

Okay I reinstalled the Server from App Store and we're back to square one with the message:
postfix/postfix-script[2941]: warning: not owned by _postfix: /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mta/./guid_device_maps.plist
However, http://topicdesk.com/faqs/os-x-server-mail-services-faq/166-what-is-virtual-mail -hosting-or-are-virtual-mail-domains say the message doesn't matter.
So I apologise for the false alarm.
Kind regards
Peter

Apple Mail Assertion Failure

Hi,
My company uses Office 365 for hosted Exchange email. We have 1 user who uses Apple Mail on OSX 10.7 to connect to the server in Exchange mode (using EWS). This was working great until a few days ago where he has sporadic connection problems. Reproducable situation below:
1) Select 100 emails in any given folder
2) Drag/drop those emails into another folder to move them there
3) They will start moving but it will fail at somepoint and give the message "Cannot execute move operation".
4) After that message appears it is usually several minutes before he can try again or send any emails.
5) Trying to send an email immediately after the error message results in the "Cannot send message using the server" dialog where you are prompted to select a different server to send the message. Choosing an SMTP server results in the message being sent but sometimes (and only sometimes) the message is resent a couple of hours later through the exchange system.
We are getting a million of the following assertion failure messages in the console:
06-06-2012 12:22:05.518 Mail: *** Assertion failure in -[EWSGetFolderResponseOperation handleResponseMessage:withObject:], /SourceCache/Message/Message-1278/MessageStores.subproj/EWSResponseOperation.m: 340
EWS did something wrong: An internal server error occurred. The operation failed. on EWS response <EWSGetFolderResponseOperation: 0x7fb9cb1ae620> (EXECUTING)
0   Message 0x00007fff8f712ef8 -[MFAssertionHandler _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 116
1   Message 0x00007fff8f71308e -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 185
2   Message 0x00007fff8f662c64 -[EWSResponseOperation handleResponseMessage:withObject:] + 556
3   Message 0x00007fff8f656eb6 __-[EWSGetFolderResponseOperation executeOperation]_block_invoke_1 + 77
4   CoreFoundation 0x00007fff87979cee __NSArrayEnumerate + 718
5   Message 0x00007fff8f6572ae -[EWSGetFolderResponseOperation executeOperation] + 453
6   Message 0x00007fff8f73397f -[MonitoredOperation main] + 228
7   Foundation 0x00007fff9152e6b4 -[__NSOperationInternal start] + 705
8   Foundation 0x00007fff91541912 ____NSOQSchedule_block_invoke_2 + 124
9   libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8a798a86 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 18
10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8a799965 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 255
11 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8c83b3da _pthread_wqthread + 316
12 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8c83cb85 start_wqthread + 13
06-06-2012 12:22:05.518 Mail: Recieved EWS error: Error Domain=MFEWSErrorDomain Code=94 "An internal server error occurred. The operation failed." UserInfo=0x7fb9cecbb7c0 {NSLocalizedDescription=An internal server error occurred. The operation failed.}
We have tried deleting the account and making a new one. As well as removing the mailbox folder (~/Library/Mail/V2/EWS-*) and the Apple Mail plist file. We have also setup the email on a different Mac (also OSX 10.7) but we still get the same assertion failure message.
This user's email account works fine in Outlook on Windows and Mac (Outlook 2010 and 2011) and it also works fine through the online web portal. Outlook 2011 Mac uses EWS (the same protocol Apple Mail uses) and it's not throwing any errors and everything works properly so that is leading me to believe it's an issue with Apple Mail.
Perhaps related, perhaps not, but the user's iPhone and iPad have also stopped working properly with the account. They will sometimes connect but a lot of the time they give an error message about not being able to connect to the server. This leads us to believe it's an exchange server problem, but then why does it work in Outlook and the online portal without any problems? It's only the Apple products that are falling apart.

I ended up having to reproduce the problem in Outlook 2011 Mac before O365 support would help me. Apparently Apple Mail isn't one of the officially supported clients so they weren't going to figure it out for me. Once they ran out of ideas they just gave me the "Apple Mail is officially supported" excuse and stopped helping me.
Although we weren't initially having the problem in Outlook 2011 Mac it did start giving tons of errors during certain operations (with a -19907 error code) after a while. Not sure why it started doing that ... but it did. This was only happening with one of our user's accounts so it had to be something server-side that was the problem. I eventually got a support ticket in their system (despite being a P1 plan holder) so that they could call me. We did some Wireshark capturing to try to diagnose the problem but by that time the problem had fixed itself.

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Since I can not log in bug report page, not even getting an error message, I'll write all my issues with ios8 here... I have an iphone 4S and I did the last update. Now I am in trouble.
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2. Impossible to copy text from most websites into notes.
3. Impossible to delete an email account in settings.
4. Uses up the battery twice as fast as before. I have "update apps" setting turned off, just reading a couple of mails, making a couple of photos and open maps apps twice a day, and the battery is dead well before the evening.
5. Got extremely slow, and it was getting slower and slower with every system update.
I'm sure I forgot something... But well, that already a lot.

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