Postfix+MailScanner: Held messages disappeared

[Dhawal Doshy]

Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Kai Wang wrote:
>>
>> We run postfix with MailScanner. I noticed in our log that some held 
>> messages disappeared. For the following example, the following 
>> message, I can not find it in the hold queue and there is no log 
>> entries about it any more.
>>
>> May 12 06:42:09 mhub5 postfix/smtpd[3690]: DC8B814014: 
>> client=unknown[87.247.131.77]
>> May 12 06:42:10 mhub5 postfix/cleanup[3904]: DC8B814014: hold: header 
>> Received: from 192.168.1.37 (unknown [87.247.131.77])??by 
>> mhub5.ucalgary.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id DC8B814014??for 
>> <lu at ucalgary.ca>; Fri, 12 May 2006 06:42:07 -0600 (MDT) from 
>> unknown[87.247.131.77]; from=<rpacongress at rpa.bz> to=<lu at ucalgary.ca> 
>> proto=SMTP helo=<192.168.1.37>
>> May 12 06:42:10 mhub5 postfix/cleanup[3904]: DC8B814014: 
>> message-id=<r1sr873ueigvy47i283f at kxcefai97i>
> 
> Kai,
> 
> MailScanner will make a copy of the mail in /var/spool/postfix/hold to 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/Incoming. During this copying, the Queue-ID is 
> changed from DC8B814014 to DC8B814014.XXXXXX (where XXXXXX are six 
> random characters). Can you double check your logs for this?
> 
> Also as Glenn suggested, can you check your /var/spool/postfix/corrupt 
> directory for any leftovers?

Oops, Glenn is right.. no corruption here else the logs would indicate 
something.. anyways check for the queue-id.xxxxxx thingy.

> - dhawal