[TriLUG] Postfix mail problem

[Jeremy P]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, David A. Cafaro wrote:

> Ok, got a question for the postfix gurus here.  I dropped sendmail in favor 
> of postfix to better support a imapd I'm using and all seemed to have gone 
> well.  I removed sendmail (via rpm) and installed postfix (via rpm), and 
> postfix seems to start up nice and happy.  To test postfix I loaded up pine 
> in a user account and tried sending an email to root.  I hit ^X to send it 
> starts it's little thing say "Sending Mail 100%" then goes to an error 
> message saying "Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 Error: queue file write 
> error".   Here are some settings:
> 
> mail_owner = mail
> default_privs = nobody
> 
> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
> mail_spool_directory /var/spool/mail

Shouldn't that be "mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail"  ?
Or was that just a typo in transcribing to email?
 
--Jeremy