Nikolaos Milas: > Hello, > > I am running Postfix 2.9.4 (for more than a year now) on CentOS 6.5 > x86_64 as a gateway server with postscreen, amavis, spamassassin. The > server receives mail from the Internet and forwards (relays) clean mail > to the final internal mail server (also running postfix). > > Today, I am facing the following problem, which I have not faced again: > > Mail is received, but most of it is queued up on the active queue, > without it being delivered. However, some mails do get through. > > I tried postqueue -f but without success; in the log I see: > > Feb 27 14:06:08 mailgw1 postfix/postqueue[26088]: name_mask: ipv4 > Feb 27 14:06:08 mailgw1 postfix/postqueue[26088]: name_mask: ipv6 > Feb 27 14:06:08 mailgw1 postfix/postqueue[26088]: inet_addr_local: > configured 2 IPv4 addresses > Feb 27 14:06:08 mailgw1 postfix/postqueue[26088]: inet_addr_local: > configured 3 IPv6 addresses
1) TURN OFF all verbose logging. 2) Run the command in http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#logging and report what shows up. 3) If step[ 2 does not point to the problem, review http://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html > I have now more than 1700 messages on the active queue, which is > usually empty (we receive low mail volumes). > > What can I do to resolve the situation? Can I safely restart postfix > (e.g. service postfix restart) (without risking losing the queued > mails)? Please advise! Wietse
