tnef screwed up my queue

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jul 30 14:24:18 IST 2005


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Please can you copy a TNEF Postfix message file on a web site and mail 
me a URL?
I need something to try it with. I suspect I'm just missing a chdir 
somewhere.

Dhawal Doshy wrote:

> Pete Russell wrote:
>
>> This has reoccured today. Its fustrating because it stops mail from 
>> being processed altogether, the queue builds up. Also there is always 
>> a corrupt message associated with this.
>>
>> postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message: corrupt/2698C501BB
>>
>> Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
>> Pete
>
>
> Pete,
>
> We have a similar problem though without the corrupt messages.
>
> We take care of this using a script polling the hold dir every 2 
> minutes.. (till we have a clear solution)
>
> [root at serv ~]# more /scripts/clear_tnef.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /bin/ls /var/spool/postfix/hold/tnef* > /dev/null 2>&1
> RETVAL=`echo $?`
>
> if [ $RETVAL -eq "0" ]; then
>     # You could also rm -f in place of mv -f
>         /bin/mv -f /var/spool/postfix/hold/tnef* /tmp/
> else
>         echo "Not done" > /dev/null 2>&1
> fi
>
> The corresponding cron entry..
> 00-59/2 * * * * /scripts/clear_tnef.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> - dhawal
>
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