Incoming mail stuck in Hold directory

Shawn Iverson shawniverson at summitgrid.com
Sat Aug 1 12:12:24 UTC 2020


Any clues in /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages in regard to the 
MailScanner daemon?

On 8/1/20 12:18 AM, Budi F wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install mailscanner in centos 7 with postfix
>
> It's working fine, but at least in every 3,4 hours all the email stuck 
> in incoming directory,
> /var/spool/postfix/hold
>
> Restarting the mailscanner will solved the problem, all emails in hold 
> directory fill be delivered, but then this will happen again
>
> Temporary, with cron, I restart the mailscanner service in every 2 hours
>
> My configuration:
> Centos 7
> postfix-2.10.1-9.el7.x86_64
> MailWatch Version: 1.2.15
> spamassassin-3.4.0-5.el7_7.x86_64
> clamd-0.102.3-1.el7.x86_64
>
> drwxrwx---. 2 postfix mtagroup    6 Aug  1 11:02 hold
>
> And the files under hold directory are own by postfix.postfix
>
> Member of mtagroup
> postfix mail clamscan apache
>
> Why is sometime the emails stuck in the hold directory, and what are 
> the solutions?
>
> Regards
>
>
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Shawn Iverson
shawniverson at summitgrid.com
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