Postfix accepting mail, but not processing queue

[Parker Morse]

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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.

It's almost entirely a disgusting amount of spam, so I've been deleting 
the queue wholesale now and then just to keep things under control 
(using `postsuper -d ALL') but it does usually send me its own 
diagnostics, among other things, so I'd prefer to actually get the 
valid mail.

I have tried `postfix reload' and `postfix flush'; neither have 
produced any errors to speak of, but they haven't solved the problem, 
either.

Where should I be looking to figure out what's failing? I don't appear 
to have qshape on this machine.

pjm
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