Postfix queue?

[Michael Harnden]

On Friday 16 April 2010 02:45:57 pm Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> Quoting Michael Harnden <mike at rochestervball.com>:
> > My server installation stopped delivering emails overnight due to a
> > corrupt clamav database. I am in the process of updating clam to
> 
> the
> 
> > latest version so I have temporarily disabled in in Kolab. My
> > question is there a way to retrieve the mail that the delivery
> > failed on overnight?
> 
> This depends on how clamav failed. Did it send out bounces to the
> sender? Or did it report a temporary error? The mails will only be
> kept in the Postfix queue if it was a temporary error. If clamav
> signaled a permanent error then the sender gets a message about the
> unsuccessful delivery attempt and the mail is no longer in your system.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gunnar
> 
> >   Kolab 2.2.0 amavisd:
> > 2.5.3-20080101 apache:
> > 2.2.8-20080118 clamav:
> > 0.93.3-20080708 imapd:
> > 2.3.11-20080101_kolab4 kolab-filter:
> > 2.2.0-20080709 kolab-freebusy:
> > 2.2.0-20080709 kolab-webadmin:
> > 2.2.0-20080709 kolabconf:
> > 2.2.0-20080709 kolabd:
> > 2.2.0-20080709 openldap:
> > 2.3.41-20080424 perl-kolab:
> > 2.2.0-20080709 php-kolab:
> > 2.2.0-20080711 postfix:
> > 2.4.6-20080101_kolab spamassassin:
> > 3.2.4-20080107   Thanks, Mike
> > 
>     >> Mail at ease - Rent a kolab groupware server at p at rdus <<
> 
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It ended up as "status=deferred" if I read the log correctly. 

I was able to retrieve the mail with "/kolab/sbin/postfix flush". My problem initially was that I 
was trying  to use "/kolab/sbin/postfix -f"
Mike