Sporadic relay failures using a hash in mynetworks.

[Josef Karthauser <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm getting sporadic problems with a relay configuration and I don't
understand why.

I recently changed  mynetworks to point to a db hash file:
    mynetworks = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/mynetworks

This contains:

    127.0.0.0/8		*
    212.42.1.5		*
    212.42.1.6		*
    212.42.1.7		*
    217.35.98.249	*
    80.0.157.230	dynamic

I am having trouble with 80.0.157.230.  Most of the time it relays fine
but periodically (several times a day) I get:

Oct  1 15:36:22 jonah postfix/smtpd[82999]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from spc1-brig2-4-0-cust230.asfd.broadband.ntl.com[80.0.157.230]: 554 <address@xxxxxxxxxxx>: Relay access denied; from=<sender@xxxxxxxxxxx> to=<address@xxxxxxxxxxx> proto=ESMTP helo=<sending.hostname>


I shouldn't be getting a relay denied.

Take a look at the log message date, and then the date of the db file:

jonah% ls -l  /usr/local/etc/postfix/mynetworks.db      
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  65536 Oct  1 12:45 /usr/local/etc/postfix/mynetworks.db

So it's not that the file is being modified...

Could it be a postfix bug?  The version I'm running is 2.1.4.

Help!
Joe
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