From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 14:45:29 CST

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Ralf Hildebrandt:
> * 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.

He screwed up the install.

        Wietse

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