> Subject: Re: queue manager delaying delivery of message
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:31:44 -0500
> From: [email protected]
>
> The queue manager will leave a file in the incoming queue when:
>
> 1) Some "security" software does not allow the cleanup daemon
> to write to the qmgr FIFO. Try without SeLinux, AppArmor, etc.
>
> 2) The queue file system is not on a local disk, and either file
> server's clock and the Postfix machine's clock are out of whack.
>
> 3) Mailscanner or other non-Postfix software directly manipulates
> Postfix queue files.
>
> 4) The file system does weird things with the "execute" file
> permission bit. Postfix sets this bit when a queue file is ready
> for delivery.
>
> 5) The queue manager is blocked for other reasons. Some vendors
> make changes to Postfix source code and thereby break things.
>
> To investigate, does the delay happen with local submission
> (the Postfix sendmail command)?
>
We are trying to replace our inbound MTA. Because of the
problems encountered, we brought down the server.
I will try this tomorrow and report back with the results.
> You wrote that you made the queue manager verbose, but there is
> no verbose queue manager logging in your report.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to associate the queue manager's
output with respect to the email message queue id. The log file is
huge, I will see if I can find the logs entries and included them.
Thanks for the information,
George
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