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

[Marco Rebsamen]

Am Montag, 28. April 2008 10:55:55 schrieb 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:configur
> >  > >  > >ation
> >  > >  > >
> >  > >  > >: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
Ok... Did I got that right... The Nameing of the file is made by MailScanner 
and is the result of..... a difficult postfix behavior ? 
And my method of releasing the file is correct and the only one that works for 
my settings ?