Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

After messing around with the Postfix configs last night, I noted this morning that I wasn’t getting any mail.  I found this interesting because I had made some changes to main.cf and master.cf but didn’t actually restart or reload postfix so I don’t know how it picked up the new configs.  Regardless, I put my old configs back and restarted postfix but noted that I as still getting:

status=deferred (mail transport unavailable)

in my log file.  The postfix queue manager was still attempting to deliver the messages using the transport that was never really setup (as I hadn’t finished my new configuration). I poked around for a bit and the solution is to simply re-queue all the message using this command:

postsuper -r ALL