Curtis:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a safe way to re-inject an archived queue file that
> was backed up and removed (via postsuper) from the hold queue. (Not
> just this once, but on a regular basis.) I realize that it would be
> possible to use postcat to grab the raw contents of the archived
> message and feed it back through sendmail (after first parsing and
> then removing the envelope information), but before I went through
> that much trouble, I wanted to see if there was an easier way.
>
> On a test machine, I threw it into the incoming queue and ran
> "postkick public qmgr I" and it seemed to deliver to all original
> recipients of the message. But, I have a feeling that direct
> insertion into the incoming directory is not the right way to do this.
>
> If the above method is unsafe, is there a postfix command that I can
> pipe an archived queue file to that would safely re-inject the
> message? Or, am I stuck with the sendmail method?
>
> Thanks for any advice anyone has on this...
On a quiet system, put it into the maildrop directory, as a file
that is owned by the postfix user.
If you manually insert files into the incoming/active/deferred
queues then you may lose mail. Postfix ensures that queue files
have unique names, but that guarantee fails when you insert queue
files in by hand.
Wietse
