Robert Lopez: > On one instance of an email gateway there are two files ... > [r...@mg05 log]# ls -l /var/spool/postfix/corrupt > total 4660 > -rwx------ 1 postfix postfix 2183168 2009-08-30 21:06 2C9ED9BB* > -rwx------ 1 postfix postfix 2588672 2009-10-02 06:46 939DD23CA*
You can find the history of these files in the maillog file. > The postcat of them show "unexpected EOF in data" and I suspect they > were simply too large. The "execute" file permission means that the file was already fully written to the file system. You can't have incomplete queue files with the execute bit, unless you have a) a file system with delayed errors or b) a corrupted file system. > Is the safe way to deal with them just to > remove them? > > Is "postsuper -d corrupt/2C9ED9BB" the (best) way to remove them? postsuper -d 2C9ED9BB Every name is supposed to be unique (if it isn't you have mail queue corruption caused perhaps by the use of non-Postfix programs on Postfix queue files). Wietse