On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> I've just installed Mandrake 7.0 and have discovered that users cannot
> receive email -- not even from other users on the same machine. The
> directory /var/spool/mail/ remains empty and undelivered mail piles up in
> /var/spool/postfix/deferred. The command qmail -v gives an "unknown mail
> transport error" for each piece of undelivered mail. The postfix
> documentation leads me to believe that it should work out of the box for
> my simple system (single-user connected to the network by ethernet) with
> no additional configuration.
Did you upgrade from 6.0 or earlier? If so you might be having the same problem
I had when upgrading fromn 6.0 to 6.1, it seems that both sendmail and postfix
were on the system. Try the following:
1 - stop postfix -- /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix stop
2 - backup ypur mail queue somewhere
3 - Uninstall sendmail -- rpm -e sendmail
4 - Uninstall postfix -- rpm -e postfix
5 - Reinstall postfix from the cd -- rpm -Uhv
postfix-someversioninformation.rpm (you will have to replace the
someversioninformation with something else)
6 - restore the backedup mail queues from step 2
7 - start postfix -- /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix stop
and see if that helps
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
