Viktor Dukhovni:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 09:24:13AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > A maildrop queue file is created when something submits mail with
> > the Postfix sendmail command, or when a maildrop queue file is
> > renamed from the incoming/active/deferred queue with the "postsuper
> > -r" command.
> >
> > Local submission:
> > sendmail command command->postdrop command->maildrop queue file->
> > pickup daemon->cleanup daemon->incoming queue file
> >
> > "postsuper -r" resubmission:
> > existing incoming or deferred queue file->maildrop queue file
> >
> > It would be helpful if the pickup daemon logged the owner UID of
> > the maildrop queue file. That would help to distinguish between
> > local submission or "postsuper -r" resubmission.
> >
> > But it doesn't.
>
> Actually it does and it did, that's why the "original id" was
> logged. This was a "postsuper -r".
In any case we both deduced this was a "postsuper -r" race condition.
Wietse
