Mail in queue stuck until another message is sent

Hi all,
I have postfix running nicely. However periodically a message get stuck in the mail queue and does not get sent until:
1) the mail service is restarted
2) another message is sent and this seems to ‘flush’ it out.
Is there a configuration option to get this mail flushed out automatically?
Many thanks

I have postfix running nicely. However periodically a
message get stuck in the mail queue and does not get
sent until:
1) the mail service is restarted
2) another message is sent and this seems to ‘flush’
it out.
I am having the exact same problem. Here are the steps I've taken so far:
1) Edited /etc/hostconfig to enable the postfix daemon: MAILSERVER=-YES- (was MAILSERVER=-AUTOMATIC-)
2) Edited /etc/postfix/master.cf to set a wakeup time of 60 seconds for the pickup and qmgr services
3) Enabled verbose logging by adding a '-vvv' flag in master.cf after pickup, cleanup, qmgr, flush, smtp, relay, showq, error, local, and lmtp.
4) Enabled verbose by adding a '-vvv' flag in /System/Library/StartupItems/Postfix/Postfix, resulting in "/usr/sbin/postfix -vvv start"
5) Restarted postfix using "postfix stop; postfix -vvv start" as root
I am using the "sendmail" program from a CGI script to send email. The message goes into the maildrop directory and sometimes it is delivered, but other times it is stuck in the queue for an unbounded length of time (not until another message is submitted or postfix is restarted).
This looks identical to the complaints on the thread below, but I'd rather not have to compile and replace postfix to fix this problem:
http://groups.google.com/group/list.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/26eb7a0ef b126bb5/fa38a2da8786e668?tvc=2&q=osx+queue#fa38a2da8786e668
It appears that sendmail (and/or postdrop) is not reliably signaling the pickup daemon and the periodic wakeup is not causing pickup to scan the maildrop directory.
I have tons of logs, but I don't want to post it all here. Please let me know what would be relevant and I will post.
Thanks in advance.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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