Mailscanner + postfix Mail loss

[Ramprasad]

Julian Field wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Is this mail lost then ? 
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> Not necessarily.
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No but in all other mails if not marked high spam and deleted
  I can see lines like ( Requeue $QID.$RANDOM to $NEWQID)
or
   $QID.$RANDOM action is delete

Nevertheless , every mail must be trackable by the queueid. Actually now 
I am able to see some particular patterns of senders and recipients 
where this happens , If possible I will try to reproduce the system


One more thing I have to mention is that I am also using a postfix 
Milter to do basic userlevel blacklist/whitelist and SPF checks. But 
these do not modify the mails other than adding a headder


Thanks
Ram





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