G'day Alex,
Thanks for the reply, I also thought your fix was the problem but no go,
found the answer in expert, and all is now working.
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Ah! The problem seems to be due to postfix (or Mandrake) failing to find
/etc/aliases.db.
This seems to be a problem with Mandrake-7.0:
1) it stores the aliases source file in /etc/postfix/aliases
2) has a softlink from /etc/aliases to /etc/postfix/aliases
3) but newaliases writes the output .db file to /etc/aliases.db.
4) postfix is determined to read the aliases.db file from
/etc/postfix/aliases.db
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex V Flinsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 09:11
Subject: Re: [newbie] POSTFIX problem
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > G'day,
> >
> > I have been a Sendmail user uptill now, after installing Mandrake
V7.0-2, I find Postfix is now the default MTA, the problem I have with this
is all my incomming mail is going to /varspool/postfix/deferred, thus being
unavailable for pickup.
> >
> > What am I missing here???
> >
> >
>
> Your system is confused.
> You probably have both postfix and sendmail installed, and neither plays
well
> with the other.
> do the following:
>
> 1 - backup your deferred mail queue
> 2 - uninstall postfix
> 3 - uninstall sendmail
> 4 - reinstall postfix
> 5 - restore your backed up mail queue
> 6 - have a beer and play with your dog...
>
> --
> Alex
> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
