Postfix: Mails aren't delivered with MS 4.41.3

[Julian Field]

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Can you just make the hash depth 0 for all the queues?

Jacques Caruso wrote:

>Hi Julian and everybody else,
>
>I encountered a weird problem today : our mail server (running Debian
>Testing) runs Postfix in a split-MTA fashion due to some constraints (I
>don't want relayed mail to be scanned, and I don't have a clue how to do
>this easily with the official installation method) and MailScanner along
>with SA and ClamAV (basically it's quite a standard setup, except for
>the two instances of Postfix running).
>
>Today, the server was upgraded to Postfix 2.2.3 and MailScanner 4.41.3,
>and we immediately encountered a problem : mails would just sit still in
>the outgoing Postfix's `incoming' queue after being processed by MS. I
>discovered that what bothered Postfix is that MS creates subdirectories
>in the outgoing queue directory ; apparently, Postfix 2.2 expects a
>flat, non-hashed hierarchy there, and won't process queue files hidden
>in subdirectories unless I manually do a `postqueue -f'. I tried
>searching the list archives, to no avail. But some further investigation
>yielded better results. Apparently, what happens is this :
>
>- Postfix is configured to have a hash depth of 1, but *only* for the  
>  `defer' and `deferred' queues (note this is by default, I didn't set
>  these values in either of my main.cf files) :
>
>  [root at sceuzi][~]# grep hash_queue /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix.in/main.cf
>  [root at sceuzi][~]# postconf hash_queue_depth hash_queue_names
>  hash_queue_depth = 1
>  hash_queue_names = deferred, defer
>
>- MailScanner tries to determine the hash depth, but it uses for this
>  purpose one of the two queues with a hash depth of 1 :
>
>Jun 21 19:05:21 sceuzi MailScanner[13147]: JKF: Hash dir depth value being calculated
>Jun 21 19:05:21 sceuzi MailScanner[13147]: JKF: Reading . from dir . (/var/spool/postfix.in/deferred)
>Jun 21 19:05:21 sceuzi MailScanner[13147]: JKF: Reading .. from dir . (/var/spool/postfix.in/deferred)
>Jun 21 19:05:21 sceuzi MailScanner[13147]: JKF: Reading 4 from dir . (/var/spool/postfix.in/deferred)
>Jun 21 19:05:21 sceuzi MailScanner[13147]: JKF: Reading . from inner dir 4
>Jun 21 19:05:21 sceuzi MailScanner[13147]: JKF: Reading .. from inner dir 4
>Jun 21 19:05:21 sceuzi MailScanner[13147]: JKF: Reading 1293535005C from inner dir 4
>Jun 21 19:05:21 sceuzi MailScanner[13147]: Postfix queue structure is depth 1
>
>- It then proceeds to create files in the `incoming' queue with the same
>  depth, but Postfix expects a depth of 0 in that queue, and doesn't
>  process the files.
>
>Currently, I've just kludged the file PFDiskStore.pm to apply the steps
>for a depth of 0 even if the stated depth is 1, but this is ugly and
>wrong. It would be way better to modify FindHashDirDepth() to call
>postconf and check the depth directly with Postfix, but I'm not sure
>about how to do it exactly, as MailScanner is somewhat complex, and I
>don't want to break everything...
>
>
>Cheers,
>  
>

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