Wendigo Thompson:
> Hi Wietse:
>
> Answering your first question, the message in question does show up in find:
> 26701170 872 -rwx------ 1 _postfix wheel 444689 Aug 4
> 2008 /var/spool/postfix/maildrop/F423E1976D72
This is one of two messages that you mentioned.
> When I look at the queue message, it is definitely representative of
> what I process by the thousands every day -- a message that came from
> my clients external mail server and was directed to my mail-drop
> alias. I have about a hundred of these messages and would really like
> to get them delivered. Any ideas?
Normally, the Postfix pickup daemon will take mail from the
maildrop directory and feed it into Postfix.
Possibilities:
1) Your Postfix configuration never runs the pickup daemon, therefore
mail stays in the maildrop directory.
2) The pickup daemon asks the kernel for the list of file names in
the maildrop directory, but the listing does not contain the file
named F423E1976D72. This would indicate that your file system is
corrupted. You'd need to find a good time to shutdown the system
and run a file system check.
3) The pickup daemon finds the file F423E1976D72, but the file
content is in error. In this case the pickup daemon would log a
warning message of some kind.
** You still need to find out where all the Postfix logging is
** stored on MacOS. Postfix logs all mail delivery attempts,
** whether successful or not.
4) Apple changed something that I don't know about, which makes
the pickup daemon work in ways that I don't know about. In this
case you need to talk to your vendor.
> I also looked for the other message I pasted this morning and
> it looks like it was successfully delivered, so I guess my problem
> is these messages that are no longer in the active queue, and how
> to get them delivered.
That other message was dated January 6, so it was not stuck in the
mail queue.
Wietse
