mail stuck in postfix incoming directory

[Harondel J. Sibble]

Interesting, problem solved, there was a file called "message" from 1535 
yesterday in the 

/var/spool/postfix/active

directory, once I moved that out, all the mail started to flow.

What should I be checking in the problem message file to determine the cause 
of the problem?

On 12 Jun 2012 at 11:13, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> So one of the machines in the field stopped sending or receiving emails,
> actually it receives them fine from both internal (exchange) and externally,
> but they don't leave the mailscanner box.  
> 
> /var/spool/postfix/incoming
> 
> has all the emails that have come to the box since yesterday afternoon.
> 
> Maillogs show
> 
> 
> Jun 12 11:05:23 mailscannersys postfix/qmgr[8414]: fatal: qmgr_move: update
> active/message time stamps: Operation not permitted Jun 12 11:05:24
> mailscannersys postfix/master[8107]: warning: process
> /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 8414 exit status 1 Jun 12 11:05:24
> mailscannersys postfix/master[8107]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad
> command startup -- throttling Jun 12 11:06:24 mailscannersys
> postfix/qmgr[8417]: fatal: qmgr_move: update active/message time stamps:
> Operation not permitted Jun 12 11:06:25 mailscannersys postfix/master[8107]:
> warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 8417 exit status 1 Jun 12
> 11:06:25 mailscannersys postfix/master[8107]: warning:
> /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad command startup -- throttling
> 
> this is a centos 4.8 box and was running fine until this occurred yesterday. 
> Googling seems to indicate permission errors, however when I compare
> 
> /var/spool/postifx and subdirectories with another working, box, all looks
> correct, suggestions?
> 
> I've had a chat with the new onsite admin and he swears the only change made
> recently was to add a line to allow word docs with double periods in 
> 
> /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf
> 
> other than that, no other changes.
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