****SPAM**** Re: ****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 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 ?
Pretty much, yes.

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