Postfix, mailwatch and queue IDs (and of course mailscanner:-)

[Steen, Glenn]

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Hi Steve (and Julian, a bit further down),

As can be seen in the mailwatch-users list archive links you snipped in your reply, I already did that... Further one could see that Steve F (and lil' ol' me) had reached the conclusion that it'd be rather messy to fix this in MailWatch. My reason for asking here was solely because I (after looking at the code briefly) had a hope that it'd be easier to fix in MailScanner... Which Julians very elegant patch shows is possible;-).

Julian, I couldn't help myself... It's in production already, working splendidly (yeah, I missed the commuter train by a hair (Saw it fade into the distance, me still on the platform (breathing heavily from the sprint (And yes, I still have my skin attached, wife's just a bit miffed (setq 'wow-this-looks-like-lisp)))))... We'll see over the next couple of days how it holds up.
The best thing with it is that it's not MailWatch-centric (all "tools" would benefit from it), and is completely transparent to MailWatch.
I was hoping it'd be this simple, but hadn't worked my way through the "requeue bit" yet...:-)

Should perhaps go into the beta? I can see no real drawbacks with it.

Again, many thanks.

-- Glenn

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From:   MailScanner mailing list on behalf of Steve Swaney
Sent:   to 2004-11-18 18:52
To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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Subject:        Re: Postfix, mailwatch and queue IDs (and  of course mailscanner:-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:52 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Postfix, mailwatch and queue IDs (and of course mailscanner:-
> )
>
> Hi all...
>
> I gather from the gigantic shrug I'm getting here (how else to interpret
> ... silence:-) that noone has a good handle on how to "improve" the
> situation regarding duplicates in sql-logs (and possible quarantine
> corruption) when using some such log feature with MS, due to postfix
> reusing queue IDs (the quarantine is in danger when using systems like
> MailWatch, which will not preserve the queue file inode (number)...
> Sure, it's a slim window, but it could happen).
>
> One could of course try to "work around" this in the "logging subsytem"
> (MailWatch in my case), but.. I dunno, it feels like it's better to do
> closer to the source:-).
>
> Why not ask the postfix people to "fix it"? Well, I'm guessing one will
> get even less response (if that's possible:-) from then, and then
> probably just a pointer to amavisd-new.
>
> Sure, for MailScanner it's not a central problem, but... Well, my PHB
> likes what he can see in MW (that's what sold him on MS...:), and when
> he starts to see the duplicates on a more ... regular basis... Suffice
> it to say that it gets to be my problem then:-).
>
> Or has this been discussed in depth already? I couldn't find mention of
> it in the list archive...
>
> Any feedback would be welcome.

Have you checked the MailWatch mail list and Archives? Start at:

http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/

You might post this question there after checking the MailWatch Archives.

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com



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