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

[Noah Sematimba]

On Nov 8, 2010, at 5:48 PM, 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.

If I remember my mailscanner setup well, one of the things involved in the setup is to modify the postfix main.cf so that it uses header checks to put all mail that comes into the hold queue by default so that mailscanner can then process it and pass them on after scanning.

So since the mail is going into the hold queue, then we can safely assume that the postfix part of all of this is working fine. So you need to check the mailscanner part of the setup.

Please check the various things specified on http://www.mailscanner.info/postfix.html especially having the correct directories specified, correct ownership permissions, and the right user in the mailscanner config.

Noah.
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