title: Getting Postfix to process the mail queue on Mac OS X
body: <p>I'm in the process of getting Sendmail/Postfix setup so that I can send and test my PHP scripts when using the mail() function.</p>
  
  <p>I've got to the point that when I run the mail() function in PHP, the script executes without any errors and the mail is sent to my mailq but it then does not get processed and simply times-out with a message of: Operation timed out.</p>
  
  <p>An excerpt from Terminal:</p>
  
  <pre>
  -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
  137AA96B6C2      897 Tue Mar 16 22:27:05  nobody@imac.local
  (connect to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.93.27]: Operation timed out)
                                           myemail@gmail.com
  </pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas as to how I can fix this timeout issue?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>
  
  <p>-P.</p>