mail stuck in postfix incoming directory

Harondel J. Sibble mailscanner at pdscc.com
Tue Jun 12 22:04:51 IST 2012


So now that issue has been resolved, request is some way to externally 
monitor the mail queues.

What do folks recommend as the best solution these days?  SMNP would be ideal 
as the internal IT has their own monitoring system(s) that can handle snmp 
traps.

On 12 Jun 2012 at 11:51, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> 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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