Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> The Friday 2007-06-29 at 12:43 -0700, Sloan wrote:
>
>> Our look at qmail was some years ago so it's getting a bit fuzzy now.
>> ISTR that qmail seemed to be full of gratuitous differences in the
>> interface with no tangible benefit. I won't deny that it seemed smaller
>> and cleaner than sendmail, but the message store by inode was one deal
>> breaker, as I mentioned. Also ISTR that we would have needed thousands
>> of alias files to do what we were doing in sendmail.
>
>
> If I'm not mistaken, in postfix the queue files are also related to the
> inodes and can not be moved. After a restore and before starting the
> postfix server you need to run ... I forgot the name, to scan the queues
> and change the filenames appropriately. It must be explained somewhere in
> the faq.
You are correct. As long as the queue files do not leave the file sysem
(aka change their inode number) you don't need to do anything.
If you do restore the raw queue files from a backup you need to run
"postsuper -s".
-s Structure check and structure repair. This should be
done once before Postfix startup.
· Rename files whose name does not match the mes-
sage file inode number. This operation is nec-
essary after restoring a mail queue from a dif-
ferent machine, or from backup media.
· Move queue files that are in the wrong place in
the file system hierarchy and remove subdirec-
tories that are no longer needed. File posi-
tion rearrangements are necessary after a
change in the hash_queue_names and/or
hash_queue_depth configuration parameters.
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Sandy
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