notqmail
add queue-fix for queue creation/repair
New program queue-fix which can create or repair a queue directory passed to it on the command line
Last time we thought about this together, which admittedly was quite some time ago, we thought a sysadmin-facing queue fix/create tool would belong in 2.0 (or maybe slightly before that, to aid in the transition of the queue format).
We do usually like to borrow well-loved code that qmail users have been relying on, but I'm not sure we've put in enough consideration yet for what we'll need our own queue-maintenance tool to be able to do and how best to have it do that.
Should we be considering this PR with urgency for 1.09? as a helpful stopgap soonish?
I like queue-fix and appreciate what you've done with it, just trying to understand where we want this to fit in our plans.
We do usually like to borrow well-loved code that qmail users have been relying on, but I'm not sure we've put in enough consideration yet for what we'll need our own queue-maintenance tool to be able to do and how best to have it do that.
The most important feature of queue-fix isn't the ability to create a queue during installation, but repair a damaged queue after a filesystem corruption. This situation will not likely happen with normal user. But very likely to happen on a mail server with heavy traffic where the queue filesystem is the most heavily used. Hard reboot of such a server has the potential of damaging the filesystem on which /var/qmail/queue lies. When this happens it is sometime impossible to queue new messages. The qmail-send logs too get filled with errors. queue-fix is a quick way to fix the queue if the server doesn't have the source code.
Should we be considering this PR with urgency for 1.09? as a helpful stopgap soonish?
I feel there is no urgency. We have instpackage queue-only option to create the queue. Most notqmail users are adept at installing patches and can always get the queue-fix program from various sources. But having queue-fix is more of a long term strategy where there isn't a single tool missing in the notqmail arsenal that helps the end user fix issues.
That sounds also a lot alike notqmail to try to integrate the features that are the most expected by their users.
