POSTFIX release from quarantine (WAS: How to let through i nnocent messages)

[John Wilcock]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:43:04 +0100, Samuel Luxford-Watts wrote:
> I am running postfix 2...(whatever the latest download was 3 days ago!) and
> have just tried releasing several emails held in quarentine.
> 
> From the quarantine folder, If you chmod +x (filename), chown
> postfix:postfix (filename) then cp filename
> /var/spool/postfix/incoming/(first letter of filename)/
> 
> It works - its not ideal, as you do get warnings logged in the logfile
> saying that filename doesn't match inode and that its renaming queue files
> but the mail is sent. Maybe more by luck than anything but it does go!
> 
> If someone could write a nice script ... 

No need. As I mentioned earlier, you can just do 
postdrop < quarantined-message-file
and let postfix sort out the inode numbers all by itself. 

John.

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