So we have a little more than usual deferred mail on our Postfix server, so I started to look through the messages to make sure we weren't hacked and sending out spam. Everything is fine and it turns out that a bot had filled out our Request Info form multiple times with bad info. However, I did find one that was a legitimate request for more information about our company and I noticed that it isn't sending because they fat-fingered the address with gmal.com. Is there a way I can correct that and have Postfix send it out? This is on a CentOS server.
Fix mail that has been put in deferred folder
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Best Answer
Delete the mail (
postsuper -D <QUEUEID>). Correct the spelling error in the mail client. Resent. Done.Postfix (and you as a sysadmin) is not responsible for "users-do-mistakes"- or "users-are-dumb"-errors. What the users did is stupid, but not an error or something that breaks the system/environment. It is just how Email works.