[TriLUG] Postfix mail problem

[David A. Cafaro]

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

owners for the directories are both "mail" and group is "root"
the mqueue directory is owned by "mail" and group is "mail"

Any clues?  I'm still going through all the FAQ's and HOWTO at the 
postfix.org site, but no luck yet.  Thanks.

David

PS. yes I was able to telnet to localhost at port 25 and get a response 
back saying it was postfix.