Are you sure, that the mails in the queue are "real" mails - and not just 
bounces for spam, which is not deliverable?

It they're bounces... they'll dissappear from the queue in 4 days :-)

Cheers,
Viktor

On Friday 24 October 2003 13:57, Marcel Prisi wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> We have a strange trouble with an "old" postfix server with about 1200
> accounts running on Trustix Linux 1.5 with kernel 2.2.2x .
>
> The thing works, but the mail queue has about 17000 mail in and every
> mail takes about 10 hours to be processed ... the load is not high and
> disks have no big activity, but the queue doesn't get smaller, as if it
> had to have about 17000 mails in. I tried "postfix flush", "postfix stop
> ; postfix start" tuning /proc/sys/fs/file-max and other stuff with no
> success.
>
> It seems to be related to a trouble with a full /var partition, which
> has now enough room.
>
> The local admin told me the only successful way was a "rm -f incoming/*"
> ... have you better idea ??
>
> Thanks
>
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