[TriLUG] Postfix mail problem

[Chuck Mead]

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Where did you get the postfix rpm?

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, David A. Cafaro posted the following:

DAC>Ok, got a question for the postfix gurus here.  I dropped sendmail in favor 
DAC>of postfix to better support a imapd I'm using and all seemed to have gone 
DAC>well.  I removed sendmail (via rpm) and installed postfix (via rpm), and 
DAC>postfix seems to start up nice and happy.  To test postfix I loaded up pine 
DAC>in a user account and tried sending an email to root.  I hit ^X to send it 
DAC>starts it's little thing say "Sending Mail 100%" then goes to an error 
DAC>message saying "Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 Error: queue file write 
DAC>error".   Here are some settings:
DAC>
DAC>mail_owner = mail
DAC>default_privs = nobody
DAC>
DAC>queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
DAC>mail_spool_directory /var/spool/mail
DAC>
DAC>owners for the directories are both "mail" and group is "root"
DAC>the mqueue directory is owned by "mail" and group is "mail"
DAC>
DAC>Any clues?  I'm still going through all the FAQ's and HOWTO at the 
DAC>postfix.org site, but no luck yet.  Thanks.
DAC>
DAC>David
DAC>
DAC>PS. yes I was able to telnet to localhost at port 25 and get a response 
DAC>back saying it was postfix.
DAC>
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