[afnog] Help!! Mails stuck in the hold queue

[Ses Blue]

Charlie,
This is one mail's log that has been stuck in the hold queue since yesterday morning.

Nov  8 09:39:29 mail-server postfix/smtpd[14063]: 3422BB2CCF9D: client=unknown[1.2.3.4]
Nov  8 09:39:29 mail-server postfix/cleanup[13431]: 3422BB2CCF9D: hold: header Received: from rcdt21 (unknown [1.2.3.4])??by mail-server.online.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3422BB2CCF9D;??Mon,  8 Nov 2010 09:39:29 +0200 (CAT) from unknown[1.2.3.4]; from=<username at example.gov> to=<username at gmail.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<rcdt21>
Nov  8 09:39:29 mail-server postfix/cleanup[13431]: 3422BB2CCF9D: message-id=<000001cb7f17$c2c5a820$4850f860$@example.gov>


Thanks
Christian

> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:56:35 -0600
> From: charlier at cymru.com
> To: sesblue at hotmail.com
> CC: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Help!! Mails stuck in the hold queue
> 
> On 11/8/10 8:48 AM, Ses Blue wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I have a mail server running on centos 5.5 with postfix, mailscanner, spamassassin and clamav.
> > This server is mostly used for relay and since yesterday morning, I have most of the emails being stuck in the hold queue (/var/spool/postfix/hold/). I don't know what caused this, no changes in config were done, unless it was caused by an update.
> > Could anyone out there please assist me?
> > 
> 
> Can you give us the output of your mail log as you try to send a mail
> and it gets stuck in hold?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charlie
 		 	   		  
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