Slightly OT - Postdrop wont re-inject mailmessages from quara ntin e

[Samuel Luxford-Watts]

I have set Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = YES and yes
Mailscanner has been restarted a few times now since this change.

I have just tried using sendmail <
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030811/329F7891/329F7891 and it appears
to work in that it runs! - however I get a non-delivery report sent to root
saying that recipients unknown... I have incluced the whole report at the
end of this message.

I am using postfix 2.0.13 and MS 4.22-5

Sam

Delivery failed report:
Reporting-MTA: dns; mailscanner.winckworthsherwood.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:30:47 +0100 (BST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; unknown
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; No recipients specified


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Trudeau [mailto:chris at TRUDEAU.ORG]
Sent: 12 August 2003 12:27
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Slightly OT - Postdrop wont re-inject mailmessages from
quarantin e


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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