2009/7/9 Frank DeChellis <[email protected]>: > We have a new postfix install (v 2.5.6) that we are trying to get going. > > My problem is ... I setup that server to be our gateway in our DNS so the > address has propagated when I needed it. But I left it on with the postfix > running for a few hours. > > So now I have a server with email box waiting for email, and a server with > no email boxes that had port 25 for a few hours with mail in the hold queue > (/var/spool/postfix/hold) with no where to go. > > Is there a command with postfix to empty the que and send that mail to > another smtp server?
I'm having some difficulty understanding the situation - mail doesn't usually get to the hold queue as far as I know. What kind of messages/warnings/etc do you see if you run `postqueue -p`? Postfix won't accept mail that it can't deliver or doesn't expect to receive, generally speaking, hence the lack of understanding. If it's simply mail that wasn't deliverable earlier (say, due to a connection problem), but should be deliverable now, you can run `postqueue -f` to attempt to flush the queue and deliver all messages.
