[TriLUG] Postfix mail problem

David A. Cafaro dac at cafaro.net
Thu Dec 13 16:16:05 EST 2001


SS,

Thank you very very much, that was the problem! Local mail seems to flow 
correctly now.
Built the 20011210 and seems to be happy now.

David

At 03:14 PM 12/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:29:48PM -0500, 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
>
>This was/has been corrected in later versions of postfix.  I asked the
>same question on the postfix-users mailing list
>(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/postfix-users/message/47816 , et ff).  After
>upgrading to 20011127 (or later) from 20011125 it was resolved.
>
>Try downloadinga newer src.rpm and install/rebuild it.
>
>Best,
>
>SS
>
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