Problem with Postfix and 4.76.1[67] - was Re: Found nn messages in the processing-messages database

[Julian Field]

On 23/04/2009 22:07, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>    
>> I then tried installing MailScanner 4.76.17-1, but that seems to have
>> some other problem in that it is not picking up new messages from
>> Postfix at all. Postfix receives messages and puts them in the Hold
>> queue, and they just stay there. MailScanner doesn't pick them up and
>> doesn't log anything.
>>      
>
> I don't know enough about the whole process to come up with a patch,
> but it looks like there are two issues with Postfix.pm
>
> in sub new,
>
>    $this->{HDFileRegexp} = '^([\\dA-F]+)$';
>
> doesn't allow for the leading 'P'.
>
> in sub HDFileName
>
>      $id =~ s/\.[^.]+$//;
>
> needs I think to be something like
>
>      $id =~ s/P([^.]+)\.[^.]+$/\1/;
>
> Either that, or just add the 'P' to the beginning of the entropy
> fragment (after the '.') instead of to the beginning of the id.
>
> I think I'll try this latter change:
>
>          my $id = 'P' . $idtemp . '.' . PostfixKey($file);
>
> becomes instead
>
>          my $id = $idtemp . '.' . 'P' . PostfixKey($file);
>    
Damn, knew I would screw it up somewhere. Good thing it was a beta. I 
have gone for adding it in the middle as per your 2nd suggestion.

Jules

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