messages on hold

[Simon Jones]

OK I have tones of mail from yesterday and today in
/var/spool/postfix/hold anyone know how I can clear it sharpish?
Thanks!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Simon Jones
> Sent: 14 August 2007 09:45
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: messages on hold
> 
> Ah ok cool, just getting some reports of messages not arriving
although
> MailScanner looks OK so far as I can tell at the moment, is there a
log
> entry for MailScanner putting them in to the normal queue? Some way I
> can see the messages are going out to the destination OK and not
> sitting
> on the gateway server?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Martin.Hepworth
> > Sent: 14 August 2007 09:50
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: RE: messages on hold
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > This is how MS works with postfix. Postfix puts the incoming
messages
> > into a hold queue, MS reads the hold queue then drops them into the
> > normal queue for delivery.
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-
> > > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Simon Jones
> > > Sent: 14 August 2007 09:27
> > > To: MailScanner discussion
> > > Subject: messages on hold
> > >
> > > Hiya, I'm getting a lot of entries in the maillog with messages on
> > hold.
> > > Anyone know why this could be happening?  Or where to start
looking
> > to
> > > see if I do actually have a problem, thanks!
> > >
> > > Here's an example;
> > >
> > > Aug 14 09:33:45 gate1 postfix/cleanup[3509]: CD5A26DB42A: hold:
> > header
> > > Received: from [81.26.189.95] (unknown [81.26.189.95])??by
> > > gate.domain.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5A26DB42A??for
> > > <recipient at domain.co.uk>; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:33:45 +0100 (BST)
> from
> > > unknown[81.26.189.95]; from=<sender at domain.com> to=<
> > > recipient at domain.co.uk > proto=ESMTP helo=<[81.26.189.95]
> > >
> > > SMJ
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