> >The trailing "*" is a message that is in the process of a delivery attempt. >I would strongly advise against using "tr -d "*"" and deleting messages that >are in the middle of a delivery attempt, as you may end up deleting messages >that you shouldn't have.
The context for running any of these delete-in-queue msgs is a stopped postfix, since postfix expects to be the only program manipulating the queue. That's running more that one instance of postfix requires a separate tree for each instance. Two postfix's, or postfix + any other program (like mailscanner), cannot share on queue. The "*" is indicates "incoming" msgs whose delivery has not yet been attempted by being placed in the "active" queue. A huge, and especially a growing, number of "*" msgs indicates that incoming is arriving faster than outgoing, a situation which cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. Len
