MailScanner issue with postfix

[Julian Field]

At 09:32 27/06/2003, you wrote:
>MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK> schrieb am 26.06.03
>17:46:42:
> >
> > At 16:21 26/06/2003, you wrote:
> > >MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK> schrieb am 26.06.03
> > >16:25:49:
> > > >
> > > > At 11:47 26/06/2003, you wrote:
> > > > >Hello all...
> > > > >
> > > > > >The MailScanner doesn't take any mails from
> /var/postfix.in./deferred
> > > > > >your configuration seems to be the same as my.
> > > > > >I've no idea what to do.
> > > > >
> > > > >Apologies for not necessarily having an answer, but I note that
> various
> > > > >people here talking about Postfix and MS are running quite old
> versions
> > > > >(one a 1999 snapshot), and also Postfix 1.x...
> > > > >
> > > > >I'm running (now in production) fine with Postfix 2.x and MS.
> although I
> > > > >must admit I'm using a weird tweak of header_checks and HOLD than
> the two
> > > > >queue directories generally suggested...
> > > > >
> > > > >I presume that all the people with problems are seeing the mail enter
> > > > >correctly into the 'deferred' directory? If so, it would then
> imply that
> > > > >MS just doesn't recognise their format before moving them to
> 'incoming' to
> > > > >scan... ?
> > > >
> > > > If you are using Postfix 1, you should see a comment in your logs
> about the
> > > > Postfix queue directory depth being 2,
> > >
> > >where?
> >
> > In your maillog, somewhere just after MailScanner starts up.
> >
> >
> > >  which is it working out where to
> > > > collect messages from. It should work with Postfix 1 and 2.
>
>thanks, it works!
>
>but there is still the problem that MailScanner does not collect the mails
>from the deferred directory. where can I tell MailScanner the Postfix
>queue directory depth being 2?

It should be logging them to your maillog when it first scans the queue.
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Julian Field
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