On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 03:22 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:16:51AM +0530, ram wrote: > > > > The "pickup" process is not responsible for moving mail out of the > > > "incoming" queue. If mail is stuck in "maildrop", then debug "pickup". > > > > > > http://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html#queues > > > > Sorry, I had not fully read the architecture. If mails are coming from > > a remote host , the go first into incoming and then put into active. > > > > In my case the incoming directory keeps increasing in size( and number > > of files) and the active directory is empty > > > > Why are the mails not put into active ? > > Well, I did spend a good chunk of time writing the document:
Thanks for all the info. Well the high incoming queue is definitely is due to syslog. Because I also notice that some of my logs are also getting dropped. Sorry for being OT , but can someone help me find what is wrong with my syslogd. I use sysklogd-1.4.2 ( from default rpm ) on Centos 5.2 ,64bit
