Postfix being stubborn

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:26:26PM +0100, Edd wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> I have installed and used postfix many a time with minimal fuss, but this
> time for some reasona all of my mail just gets stuck:
> 
> hitbox# mailq
> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> E76C639821*     331 Fri May 21 13:20:15  root at hitbox.monsternet.lan
>                                          edd at hitbox.monsternet.lan
> 
> 5C0D339824*     334 Fri May 21 13:20:32  root at hitbox.monsternet.lan
>                                          edd at localhost.monsternet.lan
> 
> It will quite happily do this all day. The daemon is running. I have
> tried deinstalling and removing all configuration files and the postfix
> user and recompiling. Still no luck. Also postix is enabled in
> /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Im going insane! why oh why?!

Postfix should log the reason why it can't deliver thos e-mails --
what is there in /var/log/maillog ?  You should also be able to use
'mailq -v' (as root) to get a bit more detail about the state of the
queue files.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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