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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Postfix users beware!
  • Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 10:19:12 -0700

Quoting Robin <robin AT kallisti.net.nz>:
> Last night my postfix install got updated as part of a (long overdue)
> system-update. What happened was that the postfix that was running was the
> old 2.0.16 version, and the new one was 2.1.4. So, I'd get an email, and the
> old one packages it up or whatever, and passes it on to a program from the
> new install, which promptly chokes on this unexpected format. And
> fortunately, spits it back up into /var/spool/postfix/corrupted. So about 12
> hours later, I begin to wonder why my email is so silent, and figure it out.
> When upgrading between these postfix versions, you *must* restart the server
> as soon as possible. Ideally before any mail goes through. If you don't do
> this, then I have written a script that will reinsert the queue files back
> into the system for you. It is at http://www.kallisti.net.nz/PostInject

I didn't send out a warning about that as I thought that's SOP when updating
any
MTA. Sorry about that. :(

-sandalle

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