On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:24:51 -0500 (EST), Wietse Venema stated: > Postfix User: > > FreeBSD-10.1 amd64 > > > > I recently had a power outage that resulted in a system shutdown. When I > > rebooted the system, postfix elicited this massage: > > > > postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message: corrupt/3ktB2X6JxNz3DljZ > > postfix/postfix-script: warning: damaged message: corrupt/3ktG0Z1PCPz3DlXm > > When Postfix doesn't find the expected information in a queue file, > it saves the message in the "corrupt" directory. > > This happens only with messages that were already accepted into the > queue (and deleted from the sender's queue or from the maildrop > queue), not with messages that were still in transit. > > > I am wondering how to remove these files. I tried using "postsuper -d > > ALL" but that failed. I even tried giving it the ID number but it still > > did not delete the files. Is it okay to delete them manually? > > The files are not part of the mail queue, and you can therefore > delete them without affecting how Postfix works. Depending on the > kind of damage the postcat command may be able to save the > sender/recipient informantion and some of the content. > > Wietse
Thank you. The files were 0 length, so I just deleted them. -rwx------ 1 postfix wheel 0B 2015-02-26 06:04:05 EST 3ktB2X6JxNz3DljZ* -rwx------ 1 postfix wheel 0B 2015-02-26 09:02:41 EST 3ktG0Z1PCPz3DlXm* -- Jerry
