Today, my Fedora based mail server crashed. It is has a small (160G)
drive for the base file system and a RAID 5 (4x500G) for storage.
Unfortunately yesterday I found that the hard drive holding the base
system started to crash. Fortunately I had a copy of that drive made
couple of weeks ago using dd command.
After a few fixes like a httpd conf, and some symbolic links everything started to work again.
Buuuuuuuut… Just a few e-mails arrived in my Inbox.
I observed in my /var/log/maillog some messages like this:
I searched for the files in the mail spool and I removed them. Indeed those files looked strange than others.
and I removed all all the files found:
After a few fixes like a httpd conf, and some symbolic links everything started to work again.
Buuuuuuuut… Just a few e-mails arrived in my Inbox.
I observed in my /var/log/maillog some messages like this:
postfix/qmgr[9038]: fatal: 66F414D43: envelope records out of order
I searched for the files in the mail spool and I removed them. Indeed those files looked strange than others.
#cd /var/spool
#find . -name "*66F414D43*"
and I removed all all the files found:
rm -rf ./postfix/defer/6/66F414D43 ./postfix/active/66F414D43Source : http://techie.yellowgnu.net/postfix-queue-corrupted/
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