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> >> well, "postfix/qmgr" still shows (queue active)
> >
> > In other words, it is waiting for delivery agents.
> >
> >> how to force postfix to deliver *any* mail in the queue independent how
> >> often that happened due timeout on the destination in the past hours?
> >
> > It is waiting for delivery agents.
>
> how long?
The Postfix SMTP/LMTP client has time limits for DNS lookups, TCP
handshakes, SMTP handshakes, TLS handshakes, and for individial
SMTP/LMTP commands.
Without a crystal ball I can't say which of the time limits is in
effect.
> anyways, after it started to deliver all queued mails i realized that it
> is always the same junk-message from china making dbmail-lmtpd hang,
> saved it with postcat, deleted it from the queue and delivery started to
> work fine again for the rest
You have delivery concurrency of 1? Why?
Wietse