From: Peter N. Joanes (pjoanesntlworld.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 12:05:47 CDT

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Hello,

I'm a programmer, but also a very part-time admin of a few Postfixes running
as relays on Mandrake 8.2, so I'm used to poking around in
/var/spool/postfix/defer[red]* and using 'mailq -q'.

My home server has Mandrake 9.0 installed and receives email for my gf (I
currently still collect mine from a pop3 account). I almost never look at it,
but this morning just after 8am I thought I'd see if things were OK.

So I ran mailq.postfix and it just sat there with no output, so I went digging
around in /var/spool/postfix and cleaned out the deferred messages.
I stopped and restarted postfix and ran mailq.postfix again, but no change, so
I ran postsuper -p and then postqueue -p which is supposed to be the same as
mailq.postfix, but it worked: "Mail queue is empty", whereas mailq.postfix
still hangs.
Anyway at some point I notice that the logs are complaining about not being
able to lock local inbox files in /var/spool/mail, so I went to look and
found that the directory wasn't there anymore!
It isn't a massive inconvenience, but still mystifying:
 - I've looked over my bash history and where I deleted things, the line
before is the correct 'cd'.
 - In /var/log/mail/info the first complaint about not being able to lock
/var/spool/mail/postfix appears with a time of 07:01, i.e. perhaps one hour
before I was logged in, but looking at recent log times they all seem to keep
switching to a random timezone.

Any ideas greatly appreciated,
        Peter Joanes.

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