On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:43:13AM +0530, Durga Prasad Malyala wrote: > I am seeing a peculiar problem in on of our servers. Some mails in the > queue stay there forever. of course they are very few just 20 or 30 in > a month.
That's what the "hold" queue is for. > 3291B6063914! 54880 Mon Jun 17 17:32:24 MAILER-DAEMON > veeren...@datasoftcomnet.com > > 2FF8A601819C! 29081 Mon Jun 17 18:44:24 MAILER-DAEMON > veeren...@datasoftcomnet.com > > 20D90601819D! 1041140 Tue Jun 18 16:14:20 eb...@jio.com > d...@datasoftcomnet.com Don't put these messages "on hold" (the "!" after the queue id means "on hold"). > I've tried everything like postfix flush, restarting the services etc. > still they stay there. Postfix does not put messages "on hold" by default. So you're choosing to do that by some means. Don't do that if you don't want to. -- Viktor.