You are playing guessing games with the author of Postfix. Please don't waste his time like that. Also, he has been fixing your top- posting. Please stop doing that, also. Thank you.
> Postfix: > > postfix/sendmail[29314]: fatal: no login name found for user ID > > 1095 > > Wietse: > > Some process with UID=1095 invoked the Postfix sendmail command. > > Postfix: > > I assume this is why my mail is not being delivered, but how does > > a process use a non existing user id? Wietse: > Perhaps the Postfix sendmail command is invoked by a program that > has no read permission for the UNIX password database. > > Check your SElinux, AppArmor, etc. logs for warnings. > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:10:35AM -0700, Postfix wrote: > The passwd file is world readable. Fine. However, this did not address the SElinux, AppArmor, et c. issues. Another possible guess is that you're using one of the Linux distributions which unwisely changed the upstream Postfix default of no chrooted services in master.cf. > The question is, what happens to mail after it is put into the > postfix/hold folder? Is it? I thought it was "Postfix not speaking with amavis?" This is the first mention of the "postfix/hold folder", by which I suppose you mean the hold queue. Postfix does nothing with the hold queue unless/until instructed to do so. It's on "hold". See "man postsuper", -h|-H, and "man qmgr", section MAIL QUEUES, hold. > I have removed amavis as an option from master and main .cf Sometimes this requires a requeue of already-queued messages which were set to go through amavisd. See "man postsuper" again, -r this time. > Postqueue -f does nothing that I can see, there are no errors in > the log file, all outgoing and incoming mail stays in the hold > folder. > > What is the next step postfix should do after mail is in the hold > folder? Nothing. It's on "hold" until you release it. One might wonder how/why this mail is on hold, but I won't ask. Instead, I will ask you to review this link before posting again: http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail That is likely to get to the root of the problem with no further guessing. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
