It worked! Thank you Wietse & Viktor for your help. Great piece of software Postfix!
2013/10/9 Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> > 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 <wie...@porcupine.org> > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > Bernardo Pons > -- -- Bernardo Pons
