To answer Victor, message_size_limit is so. For Wietse:
1) Pickup seems enabled, from master.cf: pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup -o content_filter= 2) The files are there via ls, so it seems OK 3) Postfix logs under the mail. syslog facility. What level should I set to see the pickup errors you are looking for? Is there an option that defines a date after which messages should no longer be picked up? Maybe that's something I'm missing. Thanks, Wendy On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > Wendigo Thompson: >> 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 > > This is one of two messages that you mentioned. > >> 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? > > Normally, the Postfix pickup daemon will take mail from the > maildrop directory and feed it into Postfix. > > Possibilities: > > 1) Your Postfix configuration never runs the pickup daemon, therefore > mail stays in the maildrop directory. > > 2) The pickup daemon asks the kernel for the list of file names in > the maildrop directory, but the listing does not contain the file > named F423E1976D72. This would indicate that your file system is > corrupted. You'd need to find a good time to shutdown the system > and run a file system check. > > 3) The pickup daemon finds the file F423E1976D72, but the file > content is in error. In this case the pickup daemon would log a > warning message of some kind. > > ** You still need to find out where all the Postfix logging is > ** stored on MacOS. Postfix logs all mail delivery attempts, > ** whether successful or not. > > 4) Apple changed something that I don't know about, which makes > the pickup daemon work in ways that I don't know about. In this > case you need to talk to your vendor. > >> 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. > > That other message was dated January 6, so it was not stuck in the > mail queue. > > Wietse >
