Redelivering mail from archive (mbox format? to Maildir)

[Shawn Iverson]

Drop ".A123F" from the filename.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 5:55 PM PenguinWhispererThe . <
th3penguinwhisperer at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I do that the file stays there and nothing is done. I don't see log
> entries for this.
>
> When restarting postfix I see this:
> postsuper: warning: bogus file name: hold/E124D123456.A123F
>
> So I did it again, changed ownership of the file, moved it to "hold" but
> removed the part after the dot.
> Restarted postfix.
>
> The mail seems to be delivered now.
> I'll have to do the same action tomorrow for another mail.
>
> Thank you very much for helping me out on this!
>
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 23:37, Shawn Iverson via MailScanner <
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info> wrote:
>
>> Drop this file as-is into /var/spool/postfix/hold and give ownership to
>> postfix:mtagroup
>>
>> See if it gets processed.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 5:25 PM PenguinWhispererThe . <
>> th3penguinwhisperer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to spam the list. This indeed seems like a postfix queue file.
>>> I used postcat and it reads the format properly.
>>>
>>> However it's still unclear on how I can get this message reprocessed.
>>> Is there anything special that I would need to be aware of when using
>>> postfix with mailscanner to get the message queued again?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot already!
>>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 23:14, PenguinWhispererThe . <
>>> th3penguinwhisperer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion. I already tried that. Also changed the
>>>> permissions to it now and retried. postqueue -p says the queue is empty :(
>>>>
>>>> If I copy paste a bit further of the file:
>>>> C_         933942             725               1               0
>>>>    933942               0T1552039675
>>>> 847537Acreate_time=1552039675Alog_ident=E124D123456Arewrite_context=remoteSuser at example.comA
>>>>
>>>> Note that I redacted some of the fields.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 23:03, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/11/19 1:12 PM, PenguinWhispererThe . wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The E124D.... mentioned earlier is not a directory though, it's a
>>>>> file.
>>>>> > The file utility says it's "data". And it's located in a directory
>>>>> YYYYMMDD.
>>>>> > I thought I had a lead that the format is mbx so installed mbx2mbox
>>>>> but
>>>>> > I got an error that this is not an mbx or dbx file.
>>>>> > Content starts with:
>>>>> > C_         933942             725               1               0
>>>>>
>>>>> >    933942
>>>>> >
>>>>> > If anyone would recognize this format or what format Mailscanner is
>>>>> > using for it's format that would be great.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not certain from that one line, but it could be a Postfix queue
>>>>> file
>>>>> in which case you should be able to just move or copy it to
>>>>> /var/spool/postfix/incoming/ after ensuring its ownership and mode are
>>>>> such that Postfix can read it.
>>>>>
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