Slightly OT - Postdrop wont re-inject mailmessages from quarantin e

Chris Trudeau chris at TRUDEAU.ORG
Tue Aug 12 12:26:44 IST 2003


Sam I wrestled with this for a while.

I finally set:

<SNIP>
# When you quarantine an entire message, do you want to store it as
# raw mail queue files (so you can easily send them onto users) or
# as human-readable files (header then body in 1 file)?
Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
</SNIP>

so that quarantine messages are maintained in mbox format....then you can
easily use the postfix "sendmail" which essentially calls postdrop and allow
it to forward original message:

[root at BLAH]# sendmail < /var/spool/quarantine/9DA7F1C012

This will take the queue file and allow postfix to re-inject into the
dataflow of message processing...

That's how I got it to work.

CT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Luxford-Watts" <slwatts at WINCKWORTHS.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:34 AM
Subject: Slightly OT - Postdrop wont re-inject mailmessages from quarantin e


> Hi,
>
> I know that this is more of a postfix issue than a mailscanner one but
since
> this has come up before and since its related to Mailscaner......
>
> I have been trying to use 'postdrop -c /etc/postfix < [message filename]'
to
> re-inject a quarantined message into /var/spool/postfix/incoming (the
> outgoing message queue) but keep getting the following error:
>
> Aug 12 09:49:10 mailscanner postfix/postdrop[26278]: fatal: uid=0:
> unexpected record type: 67
>
> The mail file is a proper queue file, its owned by postfix:postfix but it
> only has owner rw flags set. If I also add x flag and copy it to
> /var/spool/postfix/incoming/<first letter> postfix sends it no problem at
> all. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sam
>
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