Postfix and duplicate mails

[Kash, Howard (Civ,ARL/CISD)]

I put this in place and starting getting errors that
/var/spool/postfix/incoming/saved did not exist.  I created this
directory owned by postfix and messages started queuing there but
weren't delivered.  Was "/saved" added to the definition of $tfile for
testing and needs to be removed (as in the previous 1.1.2.17 version of
PFDiskStore.pm file) or am I missing something?

BTW, the timestamp on the file you included (version 1.1.2.18) is
2003/07/30 and the only differences from version 1.1.2.17 (2003/06/13)
seem to affect timestamps on files in the outgoing postfix instance.
The problem seems to be that MailScanner is grabbing incomplete (still
in use) queue files from the incoming instance.  Or maybe not, it
happens so rarely that it's hard to track down.


Howard


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:56 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Postfix and duplicate mails


Attached is an attempt to fix this problem. I would be interested your
results as to whether it makes any difference at all.

Don't forget to take a copy of your previous
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/PFDiskStore.pm before you copy this one
into place!

At 12:54 29/08/2003, you wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:17:13 +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> > In my case they ARE on the same filesystem. I have logfiles, etc, if
you
> > want to see them (either on or off list).
>
>I've seen the same symptoms as Keith (one copy with headers only, one
>with headers and body) very occasionally, notably when the system is
>under heavier than normal load (e.g. when the backup MX feeds us a
>huge backlog after our ADSL line has been down for a while). Incoming
>and outgoing queues are on the same filesystem. I also see "skipped,
>still being delivered" in the logs as described in thread on the
>postfix list.
>
>This would seem to be a different problem to the one Wietse is
>describing with queues on different filesystems.
>
>John.
>
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