Invalid Queue Files with Postfix

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Aug 18 15:09:43 IST 2007


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Brad Beckenhauer wrote:
>
> That would be a nice feature request for MailScanner, something to
> provide consistant volume benchmarks across all supported MailScanner
> platforms.  
> Something like:
> MailScanner -stats
> or a configuration setting to enable benchmarking with the
> understanding that there would be system overhead associated with the
> additional process.
>   
What stats would you like it to log that it doesn't already?
There's no communication between the child processes once they are 
started, but I could add a signal trap so that a kill -USR or something 
would make them dump some figures to some file or other, then restart 
the batch they were on. They already catch kill -HUP to force them to 
die. So exactly what do you want to do when it receives a SIGUSR?


>   
>>>> Brad Beckenhauer wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I'm running a Postfix system using the Hold method and recently
>>>>> experienced a huge backlog due to "invalid queue files". 
>>>>>           
> Eventually
>   
>>> the
>>>       
>>>>> hold directory got enough invalid queue files that MailScanner
>>>>>           
>>> switch to
>>>       
>>>>> "accelerated" mode of processing messages.
>>>>>
>>>>> sample from the maillog:
>>>>> Aug 17 08:37:48 mx2 MailScanner[26605]: New Batch: Found invalid
>>>>>           
>>> queue
>>>       
>>>>> files: B1FB93EE101
>>>>> Postcat of this file is below.
>>>>>
>>>>> Finding what's causing these invalid queue files and eliminating
>>>>>           
>>> them
>>>       
>>>>> is the first issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would a feature in MailScanner that takes action when invalid
>>>>>           
> queue
>   
>>>>> files are found be useful to others?
>>>>> Such a feature could:
>>>>> Detect invalid queue files (which it already does) and
>>>>> a) Move the invalid queue file somewhere safe and notify the
>>>>>           
> admin
>   
>>>>> b) postsuper -d queue_file to get rid of it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or how about a courtesy email to the email admin when
>>>>>           
> MailScanner
>   
>>>>> switches to "accelerated mode".
>>>>>
>>>>> postcat B1FB93EE101
>>>>>
>>>>> *** ENVELOPE RECORDS B1FB93EE101 ***
>>>>> message_size:             489             336               1
>>>>>           
>>>>>     0
>>>>> message_arrival_time: Thu Aug 16 09:22:55 2007
>>>>> sender: Lucien.Hatch8400 at hot.ee 
>>>>> named_attribute: client_name=62.43.179.119.dyn.user.ono.com
>>>>> named_attribute: client_address=62.43.179.119
>>>>> named_attribute:
>>>>> message_origin=62.43.179.119.dyn.user.ono.com[62.43.179.119]
>>>>> named_attribute: helo_name=62.43.179.119.dyn.user.ono.com
>>>>> named_attribute: protocol_name=SMTP
>>>>> original_recipient: tnolte at stfm.org 
>>>>> recipient: tnolte at stfm.org 
>>>>> *** MESSAGE CONTENTS B1FB93EE101 ***
>>>>> Received: from 62.43.179.119.dyn.user.ono.com
>>>>> (62.43.179.119.dyn.user.ono.com [62.43.179.119])
>>>>>         by mx1.aafp.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1FB93EE101
>>>>>         for <tnolte at stfm.org>; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:22:55 -0500
>>>>>           
>>> (CDT)
>>>       
>>>>> Received: from martinique.hotbox.com (unknown [111.13.212.156])
>>>>>            by galleryplanet.com with SMTP id 5[10
>>>>> Message-Id: <20070816142255.B1FB93EE101 at mx1.aafp.org>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:22:55 -0500 (CDT)
>>>>> From: Lucien.Hatch8400 at hot.ee 
>>>>> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
>>>>> *** HEADER EXTRACTED B1FB93EE101 ***
>>>>> *** MESSAGE FILE END B1FB93EE101 ***
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Jules
>>>>         
>> Cheers
>>     

Jules

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