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Perhaps printing out a warning at the end of the cast might be sufficient 
enough?  On the other hand, I believe the reason we don't generally restart 
services is because if something goes wrong, the service will become 
unavailable.  In this case, even when everything goes right the service 
becomes unavailable, so you have nothing to lose.  I guess that's not 
completely true: mail still was retrieved, just sent to the corrupted file.

What do people think?


> 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 <!--filtered-->:
> > > 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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> 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 <!--filtered-->:
> > > 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
> > 
> > --
> > Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
> > eric AT sandall.us PGP: 0xA8EFDD61  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
> > http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
> > http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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