Duplicate Message ID's

[Dhawal Doshy]

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John Crossan writes:

> I have MailScanner and Mailwatch for MailScanner running.
> We are running MailScanner, SpamAssassin, postfix, ClamAV, and Mailwatch.
> I could not use mailwatch to release a message from quarantine today
> (February 3)  because it had the same ID as a message received in December.
> I had to release it manually. Is there a fix for this?
>

This is a known issue for some postfix users.. from the postfix docs,
postfix can and will reuse queue / message ids.. Julian fixed this a few
minor versions back so if you upgrade (assuming you haven't already) this
should be fixed.

This has also to do with the fact that your /var and /var/spool may not be
on the same partition. Read the mailscanner archives for november / december
2004 for a better explanation.

 - dhawal

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