ran out of disk space, mails caught in kolabmailboxfilter processes

[Skip Morse]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh at gcd.ie> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we ran out of disk space for a short while today on our /kolab/var
> partition.  Needless to say, this blocked mail from being delivered.
>
> Having recovered, we have a bunch of mails stuck
>
> kolab-n  30959  0.0  0.1  70924  8920 ?        Ss   10:55   0:00 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f /kolab/bin/kolabmailboxfilter -- --host=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --xxxxxxxx at yyyyyyyy --xxxxxxxx at yyyyyyyy --client=127.0.0.1 --config=/kolab/etc/kolab/kolabfilter.conf
> kolab-n  31284  0.0  0.1  70924  8924 ?        Ss   10:55   0:00 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f /kolab/bin/kolabmailboxfilter -- --host=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --xxxxxxxx at yyyyyyyy --xxxxxxxx at yyyyyyyy --client=127.0.0.1 --config=/kolab/etc/kolab/kolabfilter.conf
> kolab-n  31370  0.0  0.1  70924  8924 ?        Ss   10:58   0:00 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f /kolab/bin/kolabmailboxfilter -- --host=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --xxxxxxxx at yyyyyyyy --xxxxxxxx at yyyyyyyy --client=127.0.0.1 --config=/kolab/etc/kolab/kolabfilter.conf
> kolab-n  31611  0.0  0.1  70924  8916 ?        Ss   10:55   0:00 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f /kolab/bin/kolabmailboxfilter -- --host=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --xxxxxxxx at yyyyyyyy --xxxxxxxx at yyyyyyyy --client=127.0.0.1 --config=/kolab/etc/kolab/kolabfilter.conf
>
> Does anyone know a way to signal these to retry or inject the emails back into
> the mail queue?  There are also a bunch of mails like these in /tmp:
>
> -rw-------  1 kolab-n kolab-n    17225 2011-06-09 10:57 IN.Horde_Kolab_Filter_Incoming.qnESEa
> -rw-------  1 kolab-n kolab-n    12963 2011-06-09 10:41 IN.Horde_Kolab_Filter_Incoming.qQHDon
> -rw-------  1 kolab-n kolab-n   563981 2011-06-09 10:50 IN.Horde_Kolab_Filter_Incoming.qZIJfa
> -rw-------  1 kolab-n kolab-n     5898 2011-06-09 10:40 IN.Horde_Kolab_Filter_Incoming.R8i7zu
> -rw-------  1 kolab-n kolab-n     1173 2011-06-09 10:59 IN.Horde_Kolab_Filter_Incoming.riIbYI
> -rw-------  1 kolab-n kolab-n     2329 2011-06-09 10:55 IN.Horde_Kolab_Filter_Incoming.RRol9I
> -rw-------  1 kolab-n kolab-n     9200 2011-06-09 10:41 IN.Horde_Kolab_Filter_Incoming.S3t0Ft
>
> These data files appear to be those for the processes.  Is that right?
>
> Thanks in advance for any hints.
> Gavin
>

I'm definitely interested in the outcome!... Where are you getting the
log output?  what does "/kolab/sbin/postqueue -p" show... anything?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around where these are stuck.
Anything in the postfix log? (/kolab/var/postfix/log/)

Hope I can end up helping...

-Skip