Requeue quarantined mail with postfix

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:37:41AM +1100, Pete wrote:
> John Wilcock wrote:
> >On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:38 -0000, Randal, Phil wrote:
> >>Froim the MailWatch FAQ:
> >> "Does MailWatch for MailScanner require Sendmail to work
> >>  correctly?
> >>  No - it is not MTA specific, however some of the additional
> >>  tools provided currently only support Sendmail."
> >Do I presule that these "additional tools" include the utility to
> >requeue quarantined mail (which is after all done totally differently
> >under postfix)?
> >John.
> Yes i have postfix, thats how i do it it - i dont know another way. If
> you dont use bayes, then you can release or requeue to some one else
> (whitelist, or dont scan mail from localhost, or it will get caught
> again) using forget option.
>
> Mailwatch is kinda groovy anyway, for stats etc. See the
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=87163&atid=582182
> coming soon features...

If your quarantine contains postfix queuefiles you can simply use
postdrop:

postdrop < queuefileid

be careful, though. If your using the dual MTA postfix settup this will
go through your outgoing postfix configured in /etc/postfix/. postdrop
will take the -c option so you could postdrop to the incoming postfix if
you wanted to scan it again. Of course, it will get quarantined again
unless you've made some changes to your config.

hope that helps.

-Eric Rz.