On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:09:31PM +0200, Bernardo Pons wrote:
> If, for some reason, the files containing messages present in the incoming
> directory had to be moved to a temp directory, is it possible to copy them
> back to the incoming directory in order to be re-queued by Postfix?
The details depend on what you mean by "moved to". Can you give
a precise description of what was done to the original "incoming"
queue files:
- which queue files were selected for relocation?
- how were they relocated ?
- where did they end up (directory in the same filesystem or
different filesystem)?
- were file permission bits preserved?
- were the leaf file names preserved?
If the target filesystem is the same as the original, and the
incoming files were simply renamed (keeping the same inode,
permissions, and leaf file name) into a holding directory on the
same filesystem, you can simply rename(2) them back into "incoming/".
[ I sometimes use: perl -e 'rename(@ARGV);' "$src" "$dst", to make sure
I'm doing a rename and not a copy. The mv(1) command will on many
systems perform a copy and unlink when moving files across filesystems. ]
--
Viktor.
