Testing V 4.85.2 postfix/showq[31416]: warning: hold/3519: uid 89: not a regular file

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Sun May 3 15:11:02 UTC 2015


The TNEF package you are using should be fine. That is the one the MailScanner install script installed. (Either from the repo or from the one hosted by MailScanner.)

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On May 3, 2015, at 11:07 AM, michael pap <mike at sentinelbox.net> wrote:
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> Thank you.
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> Policyd – should be only used for quota  spf and greylisting is disabled -- hm
> SQL Grey  should be used for it ..
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> check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:2501, check_policy_service unix:private/policyd-spf
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> just some historic  stuff ESVA did years ago …
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> so what package you suggest for tnef ?
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> [root at demo3 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i tnef
> perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-10.el6.noarch
> tnef-1.4.12-1.x86_64
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> to prevent others running into this ..
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> thank you.
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> Mike
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> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 10:49 AM
> To: MailScanner Discussion
> Subject: Re: Testing V 4.85.2 postfix/showq[31416]: warning: hold/3519: uid 89: not a regular file
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> Regarding the error you were seeing:
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> After I restarted postfix and mailscanner, the directories disappeared from the hold directory and the notices went away. The error you were seeing is typically related to tnef. You have the latest version of the internal decoder with MailScanner, but the binary you are using should also work correctly. I can’t reproduce the error now. 
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> I logged in and checked your server and sent a couple of test emails. None of these items are related to your problem but I thought I would point them out:
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> - Your policyd seems broken. Pretty sure the mailborder.com <http://mailborder.com/> SPF records are correct but your system failed them.
> - Policyd also failed gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> on SPF. Pretty sure their stuff is correct as well. 
> - Just my opinion, but you should consider just using the Spamassassin module for SPF checks and adjust the spam score for failing records. You can also create custom chains based on scores, etc.
> - Not sure how you installed Postgrey, but there are no configuration files that I could find. You should have a whitelist somewhere. 
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com <http://www.mailborder.com/>
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> On May 3, 2015, at 10:14 AM, michael pap <mike at sentinelbox.net <mailto:mike at sentinelbox.net>> wrote:
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> Ok
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> ssh mail.sentinelbox.net <http://mail.sentinelbox.net/>
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> root: MailBorder
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> thx
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> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 9:44 AM
> To: MailScanner Discussion
> Subject: Re: Testing V 4.85.2 postfix/showq[31416]: warning: hold/3519: uid 89: not a regular file
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> Email me the credentials and I will take a look if you like. 
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com <http://www.mailborder.com/>
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> On May 3, 2015, at 9:41 AM, michael pap <mike at sentinelbox.net <mailto:mike at sentinelbox.net>> wrote:
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> Hm
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> Still the same … 
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> [root at demo3 ~]# sed -i "s/pickup    unix/pickup    fifo/g" /etc/postfix/master.cf
> [root at demo3 ~]# sed -i "s/qmgr      unix/qmgr      fifo/g" /etc/postfix/master.cf
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> pickup    fifo  n       -       n       60      1       pickup
> cleanup   unix  n       -       n       -       0       cleanup
> qmgr      fifo  n       -       n       300     1       qmgr
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> --
> May  3 09:33:24 demo3 MailScanner[32417]: Using locktype = flock
> May  3 09:33:31 demo3 MailScanner[32451]: Using locktype = flock
> May  3 09:36:51 demo3 postfix/showq[663]: warning: hold/32451: uid 89: not a regular file
> May  3 09:36:51 demo3 postfix/showq[663]: warning: hold/32417: uid 89: not a regular file
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> For me it looks like mailq can not handle both directories created by  MailScanner in postfix  hold ->32451 and 32417 --> MailScanner[32417]: Using locktype = flock
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> [root at demo3 hold]# ls -l
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 09:33 32417
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 09:33 32451
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> May I am wrong ?
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> Thank you!
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> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 9:20 AM
> To: MailScanner Discussion
> Subject: Re: Testing V 4.85.2 postfix/showq[31416]: warning: hold/3519: uid 89: not a regular file
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> Also:
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> # fix for postfix
> # fix postfix unix -> fifo
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> sed -i "s/pickup    unix/pickup    fifo/g" /etc/postfix/master.cf
> sed -i "s/qmgr      unix/qmgr      fifo/g" /etc/postfix/master.cf
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com <http://www.mailborder.com/>
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> On May 3, 2015, at 9:00 AM, michael pap <mike at sentinelbox.net <mailto:mike at sentinelbox.net>> wrote:
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> Quarantine Permissions = 0660
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> [root at demo3 postfix]# pwd
> /var/spool/postfix
> [root at demo3 postfix]# ls -la
> total 72
> drwxr-xr-x. 18 postfix mtagroup 4096 Apr 29 11:12 .
> drwxr-xr-x. 13 root    root     4096 Apr 29 11:11 ..
> drwx------.  2 postfix root     4096 May  3 08:36 active
> drwx------.  2 postfix root     4096 May  3 03:40 bounce
> drwx------.  2 postfix root     4096 Feb 20  2014 corrupt
> drwx------.  2 postfix root     4096 Feb 20  2014 defer
> drwx------.  2 postfix root     4096 Feb 20  2014 deferred
> drwx------.  2 postfix root     4096 Feb 20  2014 flush
> drwxrwxr-x.  2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 08:40 hold
> drwxr-x---.  2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 08:36 incoming
> drwx-wx---.  2 postfix postdrop 4096 May  3 08:35 maildrop
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> [root at demo3 spool]# pwd
> /var/spool
> [root at demo3 spool]# ls -l
> total 44
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root      4096 Apr  6 10:17 anacron
> drwx------.  2 root      root      4096 Nov 23  2013 cron
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root      4096 Sep 23  2011 lpd
> drwxrwxr-x.  2 root      mail      4096 Apr 29 11:13 mail
> drwxr-xr-x.  5 postfix   mtagroup  4096 Apr 29 11:08 MailScanner
> drwx------.  2 root      mail      4096 Nov 11  2010 mqueue
> drwx------.  2 root      root      4096 Apr 13 10:27 mqueue.in
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root      4096 Apr 30 12:31 plymouth
> drwxr-xr-x. 18 postfix   mtagroup  4096 Apr 29 11:12 postfix
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> [root at demo3 hold]# pwd
> /var/spool/postfix/hold
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> It looks like that MailScanner creates both files in the hold queue <http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_en.html#/search=queue&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on> each per child after stopping both are disappeared by stopping the MailScanner Service
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> May  3 08:46:46 demo3 MailScanner[21903]: Using locktype = flock
> May  3 08:46:50 demo3 MailScanner[21919]: Using locktype = flock
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> [root at demo3 hold]# ls -l
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 08:46 21903
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 08:46 21919
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> [root at demo3 ~]# date
> Sun May  3 08:52:36 EDT 2015
> [root at demo3 ~]# service MailScanner stop
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for mta found postfix
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for incomingworkdir found /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for incomingqueuedir found /var/spool/postfix/hold
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for quarantinedir found /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for runasuser found postfix
> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>          incoming postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          outgoing postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
> [root at demo3 ~]#
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> [root at demo3 hold]# date
> Sun May  3 08:52:55 EDT 2015
> [root at demo3 hold]# ls -l
> total 0
> [root at demo3 hold]#
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> [root at demo3 ~]# date
> Sun May  3 08:54:00 EDT 2015
> [root at demo3 ~]# service MailScanner start
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for mta found postfix
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for incomingworkdir found /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for incomingqueuedir found /var/spool/postfix/hold
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for quarantinedir found /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> ConfigSQL QuickPeek for runasuser found postfix
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          outgoing postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
> [root at demo3 ~]#
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> [root at demo3 hold]# date
> Sun May  3 08:54:27 EDT 2015
> [root at demo3 hold]# ls -l
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 08:54 23962
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 08:54 23983
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> May  3 08:54:24 demo3 MailScanner[23962]: Using locktype = flock
> May  3 08:54:24 demo3 MailScanner[23983]: Using locktype = flock
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> Never seen that before … is this supposed to do to create an separate folder each per child in hold?
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> Thank you.
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> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 8:37 AM
> To: MailScanner Discussion
> Subject: Re: Testing V 4.85.2 postfix/showq[31416]: warning: hold/3519: uid 89: not a regular file
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> Your permissions in MailScanner.conf should also be 0660. You may also have to manually remove the offending file or directory that is hanging up MailScanner. 
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com <http://www.mailborder.com/>
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> On May 3, 2015, at 8:31 AM, michael pap <mike at sentinelbox.net <mailto:mike at sentinelbox.net>> wrote:
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> Hi Jerry,
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> I did this but same issue with the postfix user id.
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> [root at demo3 incoming]# rm Processing.db
> rm: remove regular empty file `Processing.db'? y
> [root at demo3 incoming]# cd ..
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chmod g+w /var/spool/MailScanner/*
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chmod 0775 /var/spool/postfix/hold
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> chown postfix.mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chown postfix.mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix/incoming
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix/hold
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix/incoming
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix/hold
> [root at demo3 MailScanner]# service MailScanner start
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> May  3 07:49:09 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
> May  3 07:49:09 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Started SQL Logging child
> May  3 07:49:09 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Config: calling custom init function SQLWhitelist
> May  3 07:49:09 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Starting up SQL Whitelist
> May  3 07:49:09 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Read 0 whitelist entries
> May  3 07:49:10 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
> May  3 07:49:10 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
> May  3 07:49:10 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
> May  3 07:49:20 demo3 MailScanner[9648]: Using locktype = flock
> May  3 07:49:20 demo3 MailScanner[9628]: Using locktype = flock
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> [root at demo3 hold]# ls -l
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 07:49 9628
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix mtagroup 4096 May  3 07:49 9648
> [root at demo3 hold]#
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> May  3 08:15:12 demo3 postfix/showq[15437]: warning: hold/9648: uid 89: not a regular file
> May  3 08:15:12 demo3 postfix/showq[15437]: warning: hold/9628: uid 89: not a regular file
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> id postfix
> uid=89(postfix) gid=89(postfix) groups=89(postfix),12(mail),503(mtagroup)
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> mtagroup:x:503:apache,postfix,clam
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> MailScanner.conf
> Run As User = postfix, 
> Run As Group = mtagroup 
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
> Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming
> Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> MTA = postfix
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> Thank you.
> Mike
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> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 4:19 AM
> To: MailScanner Discussion
> Subject: Re: Testing V 4.85.2 postfix/showq[31416]: warning: hold/3519: uid 89: not a regular file
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> Probably permissions. Fix them on those directories and then remove your Processing.db file from /var/spool/MailScanner. (Make sure you stop MailScanner first.) 
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> chmod g+w /var/spool/MailScanner/*
> chmod 0775 /var/spool/postfix/hold
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> I would suggest creating a group that has clamav and postfix as members and use that in your MailScanner settings. This prevents a lot of permissions issues. I use a group called mtagroup. 
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> groupadd mtagroup
> usermod -a -G mtagroup postfix
> usermod -a -G mtagroup clamav
> usermod -a -G mtagroup clam
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> (either clam or clamav depending on your distro and clam version)
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> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> chown postfix.mtagroup /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix/incoming
> chown postfix:mtagroup /var/spool/postfix/hold
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> Start MailScanner running again.
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com <http://www.mailborder.com/>
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> On May 2, 2015, at 11:56 PM, michael pap <mike at sentinelbox.net <mailto:mike at sentinelbox.net>> wrote:
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> Did I something wrong ?
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> I am running 2 childs
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> [root at demo3 hold]# ls
> 3484  3519
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> By running the mailq command I get those errors?
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> [root at demo3 ~]# date
> Sat May  2 23:44:19 EDT 2015
> [root at demo3 ~]# mailq
> Mail queue is empty
> [root at demo3 ~]#
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> May  2 23:44:27 demo3 postfix/showq[32579]: warning: hold/3519: uid 89: not a regular file
> May  2 23:44:27 demo3 postfix/showq[32579]: warning: hold/3484: uid 89: not a regular file
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> An postfix reload removes both files and then I get the next error …
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> [root at demo3 ~]# service postfix reload
> Reloading postfix:                                         [  OK  ]
> [root at demo3 ~]# ls /var/spool/postfix/hold/
> [root at demo3 ~]#
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> May  2 23:48:53 demo3 MailScanner[3484]: Could not open file >/var/spool/postfix
> /hold/3484/BF276E1B67.A91BF.header: No such file or directory
> May  2 23:48:53 demo3 MailScanner[3484]: Cannot create + lock headers file /var/                              spool/postfix/hold/3484/BF276E1B67.A91BF.header,
> May  2 23:48:56 demo3 MailScanner[3519]: Could not open file >/var/spool/postfix 
> /hold/3519/BF276E1B67.A91BF.header: No such file or directory
> May  2 23:48:56 demo3 MailScanner[3519]: Cannot create + lock headers file /var/                                  spool/postfix/hold/3519/BF276E1B67.A91BF.header,
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> Sat May  2 23:51:33 EDT 2015
> [root at demo3 ~]# ls /var/spool/postfix/hold/
> 1036  1093
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> Did somebody get the same result – or my configuration is wrong may there is a way to suppress the showq warnings?
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> Thank you,
> mike
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