[TriLUG] Postfix mail problem

[David A. Cafaro]

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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