Bernardo Pons:
> Well, rather than moved, all files into the incoming directory were copied
> to a different folder in the same filesystem.
> So the files, and thus the inodes, are different from the originals. The
> filenames are preserved.
> The ownership was set back to the original (user and group running Postfix)
> Permissions for these files are the originals (rwx------).
> Postfix service was stopped before.
Good. Also stop Postfix before copying/moving/whatever the files
into place. I suggest placing them into the maildrop directory.
Before starting postfix, run the postsuper command until it stops
reporting file name changes.
Wietse
>
> 2013/10/9 Wietse Venema <[email protected]>
>
> > Viktor Dukhovni:
> > > 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. ]
> >
> > If moving files between different file systems (directories under
> > different mount points), Postfix should be stopped otherwise it may
> > read a queue file before it is complete.
> >
> > Wietse
> >
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> Bernardo Pons
