Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:43:01 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Edd <list@arameus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix being stubborn Message-ID: <20040521124301.GG31695@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200405211226.i4LCQQA30815@server1.web-mania.com> References: <200405211226.i4LCQQA30815@server1.web-mania.com>
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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:26:26PM +0100, Edd wrote:
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> hitbox# mailq
> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> E76C639821* 331 Fri May 21 13:20:15 root@hitbox.monsternet.lan
> edd@hitbox.monsternet.lan
>=20
> 5C0D339824* 334 Fri May 21 13:20:32 root@hitbox.monsternet.lan
> edd@localhost.monsternet.lan
>=20
> 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
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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