If you want to see what each of the emails in your queue is take a look in /var/spool/postifx. In that dir there are a number of subdirectories, including one called defer and one called deferred. As I don't have anything stuck in there I can't recall exactly which of those subdors houses the deferred messages.
They are indexed in a further level of subdirs numbered 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D.E,F depending on the first character of the email's ID number (which you can see in the output of mailq). It is a hex number. Does that make sense? On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:41:06 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 3/17/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes, I expose this machine's port 25 on purpose. So I would like > > > to make > > > it a good netizen. > > > > > > I had done this with sendmail in previous distros, but am a > > > neophyte with > > > Postfix. Right now I want to verify if I have (or am) a problem. > > with postfix, it will, by default ONLY accept mail for which it > > considers itself the final destination for, or destinations that are > > in relay_domains. typically, out of the box, it will not relay mail > > for anyone, though it will accept mail for it, as resolved from the > > box's fqdn, or mydestination. > > > > I have mine set up to also allow you to relay if you authenticate > > (using sasl, via pam...or pam via sasl, if you want to look at it > > that way). basically that means I can send mail using this server > > from any network, as long as I set my client up to authenticate on > > send. but you can't randomly use it as a relay. > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > Although it seems this host is not a relay, that does not explain the > score or so of things languishing in my mail queue attempting to > contact sites I have no knowledge of, and which do not accept > the connection. Any hints how to explore this? > > ++ kevin > > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
