Here are the logs:

Jan 23 13:29:22 hostname postfix/qmgr[603]: 6A0013BD04:
from=<origin_userdomain.dom>, size=5635, nrcpt=50 (queue active)

Jan 23 13:29:23 hostname postfix/pipe[30354]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user1domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=22, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

Jan 23 13:29:23 hostname postfix/pipe[30328]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user2domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=22, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

Jan 23 13:29:23 hostname postfix/pipe[30353]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user3domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=22, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

Jan 23 13:29:23 hostname postfix/pipe[30355]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user4domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=22, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

Jan 23 13:29:24 hostname postfix/pipe[30380]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user5domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=23, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

Jan 23 13:29:31 hostname postfix/pipe[30393]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user6domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=30, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

Jan 23 13:29:31 hostname postfix/pipe[30394]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user7domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=30, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

Jan 23 13:29:31 hostname postfix/pipe[30384]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user8domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=30, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

Jan 23 13:29:31 hostname postfix/pipe[30391]: 6A0013BD04: to=<user9domain.dom>,
relay=maildrop, delay=30, status=sent (hostname.domain.com)

As a result, user1...5 got the mail ok at their homes, but mail for user6...9 went
to /var/spool.

    Albert

jcarminatipluspetrol.com.ar wrote:

> Albert:
>
> As it's always said here, prove it, show the logs...
>
> Jorge Carminati.
>
> >
> >I'll try to explain it with an example: when sending a mail to a list of local
> >users, the first of them receive it ok, but the last ones don't. Those lost
> >messages stay at /var/spool/mail. These messages are exactly the same for all
> >users, so the only difference that I can see is the increasing delay shown in
> the
> >logs.
> >
> >This behaviour is independent of the origin of mail (local or from another
> >machine).
> >
> >Messages sent to a single user never get lost.
> >
> > Albert
> >
> Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > How does a "lost email in /var/spool/mail" differ from mail that
> > is not "lost"?
> >
> > Wietse
> >
> > Albert Martorell:
> > > Adding "maildrop_destination_recipient_limit = 1" in main.cf solved part of
> > > the problem, so I thought that I might be missing something else in postfix
> > > rate controls.
> > >
> > > Mails that appear at /var /spool/mail are multiple-local-users destined, so
> > > their delays increase with every delivery. Loss of mails seems to be related
> > > to this effect.
> > >
> > > Albert
> > >
> > >
> > > Wietse Venema wrote:
> > >
> > > > Postfix hands the mail over to the maildrop program. Postfix logs
> > > > that maildrop completed successfully. Yet you believe that it is
> > > > Postfix that loses the mail?
> > > >
> > > > Wietse
> > > >
> > > > Albert Martorell:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been running Postfix + Maildrop + Courier IMAP/POP + LDAP on a
> > > > > RH6.2 for two weeks, with maiboxes at /home/directories in maildir
> > > > > format. All seems to work fine, except that every day some "lost" mails
> > > > > appear in the /var/spool/mail. Users affected vary randomly and senders
> > > > > of these mails are indistinctlly local an not local. Permissions in home
> > > > > directories are ok.
> > > > >
> > > > > In the maillog, nothing strange seems to happen, but some delay:
> > > > >
> > > > > Jan 22 11:12:04 hostname postfix/pipe[1495]: 4E49B3BD10:
> > > > > to=<userdomain.dom>, relay=maildrop, delay=425, status=sent
> > > > > (hostname.domain.dom)

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