[PLUG] Postfix "Deferred"

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Fri Aug 9 16:36:21 UTC 2002


I recently began running a postfix log analyzer, and this raises 
questions.... :)

Part of the analysis is this:

/etc/cron.daily/0postfix-log:
Postfix log summaries for Aug 8
Grand Totals
------------
messages
480 received
405 delivered
30 forwarded
60 deferred (1016 deferrals)
45 bounced
98 rejected

The deferred total keeps going up. Yesterday is was around 960. The day 
before, 850 or so. I look farther in the analysis, and I see a list of the 
deferrals, and almost all are spamhouses that don't accept inbound mail, so 
they get "Connection Refused".

Is this just the price I pay for rejecting spam?

Is there a way to see what's in the queue and flush it manually if there's 
nothing important there? I've looked through the postfix, qmgr and flush 
man pages, and I didn't see anything there that looked like a userspace 
command.

Thanks in advance.

Russ Johnson
http://www.dimstar.net


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