****SPAM**** Re: ****SPAM**** Re: releasing mail from quarantine doesn't work with postfix ?

[Glenn Steen]

2008/4/28 Marco Rebsamen <mrebsamen at unimatrix0.ch>:
> Am Sonntag, 27. April 2008 21:59:09 schrieb Glenn Steen:
>  > 2008/4/26 Marco Rebsamen <mrebsamen at unimatrix0.ch>:
>  > > Am Freitag, 25. April 2008 21:59:45 schrieb Mikael Syska:
>  > >  > Hi
>  > >  >
>  > >  > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Marco Rebsamen
>  > >  > <mrebsamen at unimatrix0.ch>
>  > >
>  > >  wrote:
>  > >  > > Hi,
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  I got some troubles on releasing mails from the quarantine.
>  > >  > >  I got a postfix Server on a SuSE 10.3 and followed the instructions
>  > >  > > at
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration
>  > >  > >:mta: postfix:how_to:release_quarantined_mail&s=quarantine
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  But it simply doesn't work... the message stays in the directory. I
>  > >  > > where in the IRC channel because of this, but nobody could help
>  > >  > > me...
>  > >  >
>  > >  > I've been on the channel the last 12 hours ... havent seen anything
>  > >  > like that on the channel ...
>  > >
>  > >  Well I havn't said that I was there within the last 12 hours...
>  > >
>  > >  > The above description aint much of a help ... since there are many
>  > >  > ways on that site to release a mail ...
>  > >
>  > >  I got these 2 settings in my MailScanner config...
>  > >
>  > >  Quarantine Whole Message = yes
>  > >  Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = yes
>  > >
>  > >  and I followed the instructions of "Releasing mail from the quarantine -
>  > > queue files". And I got no subdirectories in /var/spool/postfix/incoming.
>  > >
>  > >  I hope this helps.....
>  >
>  > A bit:-).
>  > Postfix is very particular about the ownership and mode... The file in
>  > the incoming directory (that you copy there) should be owned by your
>  > postfix user/group (usually "postfix":-) and be mode -rwx------ (chmod
>  > 0700 ...), so start by making sure of that.
>  > Also ... you might have something informative in the logs perhaps?
>  > Look in all logs, if you do logfile splitting (info, warning and error
>  > ...).
>  >
>  > Cheers
>  > --
>  > -- Glenn
>  > email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
>  > work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
>
>  Ok, I checked these permissions... they where right...
>  It looks like the problem is the file name of the queue file. They look like
>  that:
>
>  12FC0236A4.1B60B
>
>  then i get this message in the logile:
>
>  Apr 27 23:56:48 race-winner postfix/postsuper[25736]: warning: bogus file
>  name: incoming/12FC0236A4.1B60B
>
>  and When i rename the file and remove the ".06E41" stuff the message gets
>  delivered....
>
>  Why do i have such crappy names ??

Well.... You *could* blame me, I guess:-).
It's like this:
- Postfix reuses queue file names. The chance of reuse happening is
rather high (inode number and the millisecond is used to generate the
name).
- If you use MailWatch or another form of database logging, this queue
ID reuse is unacceptable.
- To overcome this, Jules (on my behest:-) add a bit of entropy at the
end, after an easily identifiable relimiter (".";-).

It's been like this for ages.
We who use MailWatch need "store" as RFC822 messages (and keep the
envelope info in the database anyway), so ... for us this is a
non-issue... But one would think that the ones that "store" as queue
files would've seen this before... and would amend the wiki page.
Since you found this out, you can update it yourself... That's the
whole point with a wiki;-).
If you can, please check if this is general or if it is something that
has been introduced in later versions of Postfix. I'm pretty sure that
last I looked (oh so many versions ago:-), the info in the wiki was
enough, more or less.

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se