Aaron Bennett:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a number of message (150-200) on each of three mail relays stuck in
> the maildrop queue generating pickup permission denied warnings as follows:
>
> Jan 3 18:18:29 megalon postfix/pickup[12469]: warning: maildrop/BC4872E769C:
> Permission denied
>
> The messages are not particularly unusual. The permission of the maildrop
> directory are:
>
> drwx-wx--- 2 postfix postdrop 4096 Jan 3 17:30
>
> And the files are all:
>
> -rwx------ 1 postfix postfix 3973 Dec 2 20:19 84AA92E75BC
>
> And I can do 'sudo -u postfix postcat <QUEUEFILE>' on them and see the
> messages. I can also do postsuper -d <QUEUEFILE> on individual messages and
> delete them that way.
>
The permissons are normal, therefore you have either
- A corruped file system (not possible, since postcat can read the
file).
- Other file OR directory permission attributes that the "ls"
command does not show but that allow you to view the files with
sudo postcat.
- Other "security" features (SeLinux etc) that don't allow the
pickup daemon to open files owned by the postfix user. Such files
exist when you move queue files with "postsuper -r".
Wietse
