On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > 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 >
So, on a box that I know has nothing else feeding into the maildrop queue, it would be safe to skip the step of dropping it in the idle queue of a second instance (on the same filesystem) and running "postsuper -s" to get a properly named queue file? I would, of course, use a queue file name that would never be used by postfix. Curtis
