cutedge is a company that makes a mail /postfix startup service front end. This was a spurious (coincidental) error, long past resolved and unrelated. /usr/local/cutedge/postfix/etc is actually a symlink to /etc/postfix...
Today I see postfix/qmgr[21552]: warning: private/filter socket: malformed response postfix/qmgr[21552]: warning: transport filter failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description If I dig back to 04:53 I find postfix/qmgr[21552]: warning: private/filter socket: malformed response postfix/qmgr[21552]: warning: transport filter failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description postfix/master[21361]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/pipe pid 23338 exit status 1 postfix/master[21361]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/pipe: bad command startup -- throttling I'm still adding logging. > On Nov 18, 2015, at 11:28, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > > This shows that something has messed up your configuration such > that the Postfix sendmail and postdrop programs no longer work. > > In the logfile record above, there are several error messages: > > postdrop: error: untrusted configuration directory name: > /usr/local/cutedge/postfix/etc > > postdrop: fatal: specify "alternate_config_directories = > /usr/local/cutedge/postfix/etc" in /etc/postfix/main.cf > > sendmail: warning: command "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with > status 1 > > sendmail: fatal: sender-localpart@sender-domain(78): unable > to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Unknown error: 0 > > Does the pathname "/usr/local/cutedge/postfix/etc" appear in the > spam filter script? > > Wietse > -- Vicki Brown cfcl.com/vlb