Dear Mario Enrico Ragucci, > I just installed Postfix and encountered the following problem: > All incoming mail is pushed into the deferred queue, but not delivered > into > the user mailbox. just check whether all the mails are in /var/spool/postfix/incoming. > As far as I understand the program, all mail is recieved by a first > instance > of postfix, pushed into the deferred queue, scanned by spamassassin and > clam, > and then delivered by a 2nd instance of postfix. yes you got this part right. > I think that this 2nd instance of postfix is not startet. A short look > at syslog after > restarting openprotect shows the following error: > > ------------ > Mar 22 00:21:55 cerberus postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail > system is not running > Mar 22 00:22:07 cerberus postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix > mail system > Mar 22 00:22:07 cerberus postfix/master[7731]: daemon started -- version > 2.0.18 > Mar 22 00:22:07 cerberus postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail > system is already running > ------------ > > After reading the /etc/init.d/openprotect script, I encountered that it > tries to execute > 1) postfix -c /etc/postfix and > 2) postfix -c /etc/postfix.in > > When I manually run this commands, it also starts one instance of > postfix and tells me > then that it cannot start another instance of postfix. > I think that I have to change something in a configuration file, but I > don't have any > clue what I need to change. OpenProtect starts postfix, so check whether postfix is starting in your init scripts, if it is a sysv init system (redhat,debian,...), it has been taken care for you, if it is not, then you will have to remove it manually. cheers, Ganesh, KM.
