Postfix accepting mail, but not processing queue

[Parker Morse]

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On Thursday, Jul 8, 2004, at 16:12 US/Eastern, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2004, at 4:06 PM, Parker Morse wrote:
>> My secondary MX is a RH 9 box running Postfix.
>>
>> I had an incident with a runaway Perl script last night which jacked 
>> load averages up towards 18 and 19 and gummed things up quite a bit. 
>> (Among other things, it stopped accepting SSH connections.) I got it 
>> cleaned up this morning, and it's accepting SSH again, but mail is 
>> behaving oddly.
>>
>> It accepts SMTP connections and queues the mail. But it isn't 
>> delivering the mail. The queue just gets longer and longer.
>>
>> I have tried `postfix reload' and `postfix flush'; neither have 
>> produced any errors to speak of, but they haven't solved the problem, 
>> either.
>
> Watch your /var/log/maillog to see where the delivery is failing.  If 
> you're running SpamAssassin, Amavis, or one of the other content 
> checkers, it's possible they've died and Postfix is unable to deliver 
> them to the socket.

On this system, I'm doing most of the anti-spam with RBLs and Postfix's 
internal restrictions (SpamAssassin runs on the primary MX.) So nothing 
in there.

I got a suggestion off-list about how to try a harder restart for 
postfix, and managed to get it running using the basics:

`postfix stop'
`postfix start'

...and it looks like it's running again.

Thanks,

pjm
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