Thanks for the attention on this. Yeah that sounds like me, but there's nothing showing up in the logs. I'll attempt to send a message and paste what shows up in the logs here.
>From the client(exactly the same thing happens if I try to send via telnet on >the server itself): $ telnet shuttle 25 Trying 192.168.1.105... Connected to shuttle. Escape character is '^]'. 220 shuttle.local ESMTP Postfix ehlo shuttle 250-shuttle.local 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH PLAIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250-DSN 250-SMTPUTF8 250 CHUNKING mail from: madams@shuttle none 555 5.5.4 Unsupported option: none mail from: madams@shuttle 250 2.1.0 Ok rcpt to: root@shuttle 250 2.1.5 Ok data 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> subject: testing Testing.... . 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B03444A4201 >From journalctl on the server: Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/cleanup[20775]: B03444A4201: message-id=<> Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: public/cleanup socket: wanted attribute: status Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute name: status Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute value: 0 Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: public/cleanup socket: wanted attribute: reason Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute name: reason Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute value: (end) Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/qmgr[9692]: B03444A4201: from=<madams@shuttle>, size=199, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: public/cleanup socket: wanted attribute: (list terminator) Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute name: (end) Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: > spike[192.168.1.106]: 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B03444A4201 Dec 23 15:07:09 shuttle postfix/local[21640]: B03444A4201: to=<root@shuttle>, relay=local, delay=25, delays=25/0.02/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Dec 23 15:07:09 shuttle postfix/qmgr[9692]: B03444A4201: removed /var/log/mail/errors.log shows no input from this transaction /var/log/mail/warnings.log shows no input from that transaction /var/log/mail/info.log shows only the information I drew from journalctl above: Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/cleanup[20775]: B03444A4201: message-id=<> Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: public/cleanup socket: wanted attribute: status Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute name: status Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute value: 0 Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: public/cleanup socket: wanted attribute: reason Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute name: reason Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute value: (end) Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/qmgr[9692]: B03444A4201: from=<madams@shuttle>, size=199, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: public/cleanup socket: wanted attribute: (list terminator) Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: input attribute name: (end) Dec 23 15:07:08 shuttle postfix/smtpd[20834]: > spike[192.168.1.106]: 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B03444A4201 Dec 23 15:07:09 shuttle postfix/local[21640]: B03444A4201: to=<root@shuttle>, relay=local, delay=25, delays=25/0.02/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Dec 23 15:07:09 shuttle postfix/qmgr[9692]: B03444A4201: removed Did I miss one? ________________________________ From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org <owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org> on behalf of Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 1:12 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org <postfix-users@postfix.org> Subject: Re: Mail shows being queued, but not in queue On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 07:40:01PM +0000, Mark ADAMS wrote: > I forgot a couple of things: > Distro: Linux shuttle 5.4.2-desktop-1.mga7 #1 SMP Thu Dec 5 17:40:00 UTC 2019 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Postfix: postfix-3.4.5-1.mga7 > Dovecot: 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b) What you forgot more than anything else is the logs that show how the message in question was hanled by Postfix. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail -- Viktor.