tnef screwed up my queue

Pete Russell pete at ENITECH.COM.AU
Sat Jul 30 16:40:11 IST 2005


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Buggar! i have deleted and turned off tnef expansion (wil this stop this 
from happening?

I will turn tnef back on and monitor when i go back to work on monday.
Pete

Julian Field wrote:
> 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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