Wietse Venema: > > So it seems this issue occurs whenever the mail queue total recipient count > > reaches 5000 > > addresses. > > Thanks, that is very useful. This appears to be a corner-case error, > and that would explain why the problem was difficult to reproduce.
This reproduces 100% with the Postfix smtp-source test program and a test system with empty Postfix queue. Sending a test message over SMTP with 5000 or more recipients will trigger the problem. It should also reproduce with virtual_alias_maps expansion and with alias_maps expansion, because they all result in similar queue file contents. I'm going back to $WORK now, and will do further experiments later. Wietse