Indeed it is the problem! I have increased the amount of amavis daemons on this host however I did not add the corresponding lines to master.cf.
I am now tweaking this as needed, and the active queues are not longer an issue. Thanks for the all the help Postfix Jedi's. On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:18 PM Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 07:58:45PM +0000, Travis Dolan wrote: > > > content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 > > There's your problem. Your content filter is too slow, it is > probably doing remote DNS lookups. > > The mail in the active queue is pre-filter, not post-filter. > > -- > Viktor. >