From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 14:00:27 CST

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* Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org>:

> Sorry about the grumpiness.
>
> The format of Postfix queue files has changed over time. For example,
> Postfix 2 can read Postfix 1 queue files, but older Postfixen can't
> always read newer Postfix queue files.
>
> Apr 1 09:40:25 server1 postfix/qmgr[23238]: warning: bad extra offset file act
> ive/A/AD8344
>
> This means that you are running an older queue manager that expects
> an older queue file format that is no longer created by recent
> snapshot versions.
>
> I suspect that you did not stop the old running Postfix and
> simply installed the new Postfix over the old one, and now
> you have daemons of different versions.

No, he had to switch back, because the newer version was not
delivering mails -- the mails were "hanging " in the active state
forever.

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