Mailscanner + postfix Mail loss

[Julian Field]

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ram wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 13:45 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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>> I would certainly start by upgrading MailScanner to the latest. This 
>> will only take a few minutes to do.
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> I have done the upgrade but still today I say atleast one mail
> disappearing without trace 
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> Now I have 
> MailScanner 4.63 ( latest-stable as of today) 
> postfix-2.3.4
> on Centos 4.4 
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> grep 162A54747DD /var/log/maillog
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> Sep 19 16:04:18 spam2 postfix/smtpd[22001]: 162A54747DD:
> client=unknown[210.212.203.3]
> Sep 19 16:04:24 spam2 postfix/cleanup[22875]: 162A54747DD: hold: header
> Received: from sender.tld (unknown [210.212.203.3])??by
> spam2.netcore.co.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162A54747DD??for
> <lokesh at rcpt.tld>; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:04:17 +0530 (IST) from
> unknown[210.212.203.3]; from=<meganasarkar.proj at sender.tld>
> to=<lokesh at rcpt.tld> proto=ESMTP helo=<sender.tld>
> Sep 19 16:04:24 spam2 postfix/cleanup[22875]: 162A54747DD:
> message-id=<000b01c7fa82$55f46140$960ba8c0 at MEGANA>
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> That is it--
>  the queueid doesnt figure  anywhere else in the entire maillog , nor is
> it there in the mailq 
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When the message is put in the postfix incoming queue, it is put in with 
a new queue id. You can't re-use queue ids like you can with all the 
other MTAs. So you won't see the queue id again.
> Is this mail lost then ? 
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Not necessarily.
> Thanks
> Ram
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Jules

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