LKBEN11199: How to flush an deliver the postfix queue again

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LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 0 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Symptom

You need to deliver all queued mail

Cause

This is needed from time to time

Solution

When you have mails in the queue which could not be delivered, you can use this command to attempt again.

postqueue -f

To just print the queue you can use

postqueue -p

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

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