Postfix 2.2 and hashed mail queues

[Julian Field]

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I need to expand it to support a hash queue depth of 0. This won't
happen in time for the April release (not enough time for testing) but I
will work on it as soon as I can.

Drew Marshall wrote:

> Julian
>
> As of Postfix 2.2 Wietse has decided that it is no longer a
> requirement for Postfix to run hashed mail queues (Because of advances
> in file systems). MailScanner insists on finding hashed queue files.
> Now while it is possible to tell Postfix to hash incoming and deferred
> (As required by MS) but Postfix only makes the hash directories based
> on the incoming mail messages, e.g. message 0xxxxxxxxxx arrives, hash
> directory /var/spool/postfix/incoming/0 is created, no others. In the
> mean time MailScanner is throwing out errors to log and is not
> processing mail until it finds all the hash directories. Even if I
> make them manually, when I stop and start or even re-load Postfix they
> are removed.
>
> Is there any way that you could get MS to check which type of queue it
> has and process accordingly? I have had to roll back to Postfix 2.1.5
> just to get mail moving.
>
> Thanks
>
> Drew
>
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