On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 06:42:48PM -0700, Doug Hardie via Postfix-users wrote:
> Then I went to find what's in /var/run/postfix.
Normally, messages are in /var/spool/postfix, is this not the case on
your system?
> There are 4 messages in defer/* and they match the mailq entries.
The defer/ directory does not hold messages, it holds "bounce logs" for
messages whose delivery tempfailed.
> However, there are 1179 messages in deferred/*.
The deferred/ directory holds message queue files, they are well-formed,
and available for future delivery attempts, provided:
- The queue filename is consistent with its inode number, encoded
as part of the name.
- The "execute" bit is set in the owner permissions of the file
(mode 0700, not 0600).
- The file modification time is not in the far future.
You can examine these with "postcat -q <queueId>".
> Most are dated in 2017, ... Why would there be 1175 messages in
> deferred with no defer entry?
They probably don't have the execute bit set, and were put there
manually in ~2017 by someone who did not understand the queue
directory structure.
--
Viktor.
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