* Victor Duchovni <postfix-users@postfix.org>: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:35:14PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > > > Consider using RSYNC to COPY the file from the hold queue to the > > > incoming queue, using the same file name. > > > > Once it's there, will it take the same path as the initial mail (on > > HOLD) would have taken? > > No, because only cleanup(8) and postsuper(1) put messages in the "hold" > queue, if you place a mode 700 file in "incoming" it is in the first > stage of output processing and can only be delivered, but not put on HOLD > (except via postsuper). > > Note, if rsync propagates file permissions before it copies file contents, > an incomplete queue file could be picked up by the queue manager before > it is completely written. So it is safer to rsync outside "incoming" > (in the same file-system) and then rename into "incoming". > > The above said, rsync also uses temporary file-names while creating files, > and uses rename to finalize the file copy only once the contents are > all there, so Wietse's suggestion will likely work, provided rsync's > temp file names don't look like Postfix queue-ids (the queue manager > incoming directory scans skip filenames that don't look like queue-ids). > > The code in question is src/global/mail_queue.c:mail_queue_id_ok() > which skips any filenames that are not alphanumeric (with '_'). > > So provided rsync's temp names include some other chars (I think > it uses ".tempname" to keep temp files "out of view" while they > are being created) there is no need for the intermediate copy...
Thanks for the great input. I'll take that into consideration when I build the script. p...@rick -- All technical questions asked privately will be automatically answered on the list and archived for public access unless privacy is explicitely required and justified. saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH): <http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>
