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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

If this is the cast then maybe this is one of the instances where the
spell needs to do the telinit in the POST_INSTALL or something. Even
though we general don't. 

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 10:19 -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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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