"Syntax error in Postfix queue file"?

[John Baker]

Okay, I found two problem files that way and removed them. All fixed now.

Thanks

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 07/03/2008, John Baker <johnnyb at marlboro.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  Something seemed to go wrong at some point this week and I keep getting
>>  this Mailscanner error in my syslog.
>>
>>  Syntax error in Postfix queue file, didn't start with a C record
>>
>>  Running qshape hold gives me this
>>
>>  Use of uninitialized value in subtraction (-) at /usr/sbin/qshape line 251.
>>
>>  That section looks like this.
>>
>>     246 # bucket 0 is the total over all the buckets.
>>      247 # buckets 1 to $bnum contain the age breakdown.
>>      248 #
>>      249 sub bucket {
>>      250     my ($qt, $now) = @_;
>>      251     my $m = ($now - $qt) / (60 * $tick);
>>      252     return 1 if ($m < 1);
>>      253     my $b = $opts{"l"} ? int($m+1) : 2 + int(log($m) / log(2));
>>      254     $b < $bnum ? $b : $bnum;
>>      255 }
>>
>>  I'm not really sure what's happened here. Does anybody have any ideas?
>>
>>  Something is wrong with the ques yet mail actually does seem to be going
>>  through the server.
> 
> What does "postqueue -p" (a.k.a. mailq) have to say? Basically what
> seems to be happening is that you have a very invalid (possibly non-)
> queue file in hold, that MailScanner drops from the batch every time
> it gets "eligible" for pickup. Look in the hold queue, probably at one
> of the oldest files... Can you "postcat" them?
> 
> That mail still flows is because MS successfully drops it from the batch.
> 
> Cheers


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John Baker
Network Systems Administrator
Marlboro College
Phone: 451-7551 off campus; 551 on campus