Hi Wietse: Answering your first question, the message in question does show up in find: 26701170 872 -rwx------ 1 _postfix wheel 444689 Aug 4 2008 /var/spool/postfix/maildrop/F423E1976D72
When I look at the queue message, it is definitely representative of what I process by the thousands every day -- a message that came from my clients external mail server and was directed to my mail-drop alias. I have about a hundred of these messages and would really like to get them delivered. Any ideas? I also looked for the other message I pasted this morning and it looks like it was successfully delivered, so I guess my problem is these messages that are no longer in the active queue, and how to get them delivered. Thanks, Wendy On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > Wendigo Thompson: >> Hello: >> >> I maintain a database of e-mail messages for my law firm client -- I >> wrote an application that inserts e-mail messages into a database and >> then used an alias to pipe e-mail to that application, and the clients >> e-mail server forwards all mail for certain litigants to that e-mail >> address. Nominally this works great, but I've noticed an odd issue: >> some messages get queued and are never released. I'd like to force >> postfix to redeliver these messages (I've tried postsuper and >> postsuper -r ALL with no luck) -- does anybody have any pointers? >> It's 2.4.3 on Mac OS X Server 10.5. > > Beware, I don't have a Mac, and Apple has made some changes to > Postfix so I may have to refer you to the vendor if this does not > work out on the mailing list. > >> Sample mailq entries (one has been stuck since August, the other since >> Monday: >> F423E1976D72 444129 Fri Aug 1 15:23:30 MAILER-DAEMON > > This message has no recipients, and should have been removed from > the queue long ago. > > Please report results of the following shell command (as root): > > find /var/spool/postfix -name F423E1976D72 -ls > > (instead of /var/spool/postfix, specify the name where Apple > stores the Postfix queue. That is the output of the command: > > postconf queue_directory > > ) > >> 001F224CE9559* 3080 Wed Jan 6 14:51:58 MAILER-DAEMON >> msgrece...@10.188.237.22 > > This message is in the active queue. Do you have any qmgr processes > running? If not, then nothing will happen with this mail. Apple > has added an automatic shutdown feature to Postfix that may get in > the way of progress. > > Do you have any mail logfile information for this message? If > there is none, then that is also a problem that needs to be solved > before we can find out why these messages are not moving. > > Wietse >
