Mail stuck in active queue for loooong time

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Mail stuck in active queue for loooong time
\ Lars Oberg (20 Sep 2007)
. \ Victor Duchovni (21 Sep 2007)
. . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . \ Victor Duchovni (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . \ (Wietse Venema) (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . \ Victor Duchovni (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . \ Ralf Hildebrandt (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . \ (Wietse Venema) (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . \ Victor Duchovni (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . \ (Wietse Venema) (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . \ (Wietse Venema) (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . \ Victor Duchovni (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ Victor Duchovni (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ Victor Duchovni (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ Ralf Hildebrandt (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ (Wietse Venema) (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ Victor Duchovni (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . \ Lars Oberg (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . \ Tony Earnshaw (21 Sep 2007)
. . . . . \ Ralf Hildebrandt (21 Sep 2007)
. . . \ Ralf Hildebrandt (21 Sep 2007)

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Subject:	Mail stuck in active queue for loooong time
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Lars Oberg
Date:	20 Sep 2007

Hi,

Yesterday, emails started to get stuck in the active
queue for a long time (20 - 160 minutes) and I have
not been able to figure out why. I am new to postfix
so I am probably missing something obvious.

Postfix 2.4.5 on CentOS 4.5. Dual PIII 1.3 GHz, 2 GB
RAM, 10K RPM SCSI, raid.

$ qshape active
T 5 10 20 40 80 160 320
640 1280 1280+
TOTAL 428 17 29 120 78 165 18 1
0 0 0
samys.com 409 14 27 117 77 158 15 1
0 0 0
mail02.samys.com 7 3 0 1 0 2 1 0
0 0 0
yahoo.com 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
0 0 0
dotlinecorp.com 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
0 0 0
aol.com 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
ucla.edu 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
0 0 0
phaseone.com 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0
microage.com 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
orangeusd.org 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0
countrywide.com 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
ingrammicro.com 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
0 0 0
canyondesigngroup.com 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0

samys.com is our domain. A few weeks ago we switched
from an old server running sendmail to a new server
running postfix. All was well until yesterday when
this problem started.

Example of problem e-mail:
Sep 20 14:43:36 mail02 postfix/smtpd[30175]:
C7BE5C8006:
client=web30111.mail.mud.yahoo.com[209.191.69.43]
Sep 20 14:43:37 mail02 postfix/cleanup[30180]:
C7BE5C8006:
message-id=<54320.38834.qm>
Sep 20 14:43:37 mail02 postfix/qmgr[30049]:
qmgr_active_feed: incoming/C7BE5C8006
Sep 20 14:43:37 mail02 postfix/qmgr[30049]:
qmgr_message_alloc: active C7BE5C8006
Sep 20 14:43:37 mail02 postfix/qmgr[30049]:
C7BE5C8006: recipient limit 5000
Sep 20 14:43:37 mail02 postfix/qmgr[30049]:
C7BE5C8006: from=<lars_oberg>, size=1458,
nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 20 15:22:32 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]: qmgr_move:
moved C7BE5C8006 from active to incoming
Sep 20 15:22:32 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]:
qmgr_active_feed: incoming/C7BE5C8006
Sep 20 15:22:32 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]:
qmgr_message_alloc: active C7BE5C8006
Sep 20 15:22:32 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]: C7BE5C8006:
recipient limit 5000
Sep 20 15:22:32 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]: C7BE5C8006:
from=<lars_oberg>, size=1458, nrcpt=1 (queue
active)
Sep 20 15:31:20 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]:
qmgr_peer_select: C7BE5C8006 amavisfeed
[127.0.0.1]:10024 (2 of 7)
Sep 20 15:31:20 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]:
qmgr_job_retire: C7BE5C8006
Sep 20 15:31:20 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]: send attr
queue_id = C7BE5C8006
Sep 20 15:31:36 mail02 postfix/lmtp[7017]: C7BE5C8006:
to=<loberg>,
relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, conn_use=14,
delay=2880, delays=2336/528/0/16, dsn=2.0.0,
status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as DDD8EC7FC4)
Sep 20 15:31:36 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]:
qmgr_active_done: C7BE5C8006
Sep 20 15:31:36 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]: C7BE5C8006:
removed
Sep 20 15:31:36 mail02 postfix/qmgr[5857]:
qmgr_job_free: C7BE5C8006 amavisfeed

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Lars

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