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From: Philip Reynolds <phil@redbrick.dcu.ie>
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hrishy's [hrishys@yahoo.co.uk] 22 lines of wisdom included:
> Hi All
> 
> 
> I ahd some users test1 test2 etc.i deleted their
> mailboxes from /var/mail/test1 etc.now the postfix
> queue seems to be huge can anybody help what could be
> wrong

Some logs might be of some help.

1) some output of /var/log/maillog with some relevant error message
(that could be /var/log/mail.log or some other log depending on your
configuration)

2) the output from ``postconf -n''

On another note, you did recreate the mailboxes, didn't you?

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