On Saturday, October 20, 2018 08:52:23 PM Wietse Venema wrote: > gaurav.parashar: > > Hii, > > I had installed postfix in Ubuntu 16.04 and it was working seamlessly. > > Some > > time back I upgraded it to Ubuntu 18.04 and suddenly emails stop coming to > > my inbox. It gave me this error: > > postfix/postdrop[27466]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file > > maildrop/675261.27466: Permission denied > > Somoene messed up file permissions, or someone decided > to break setgid programs. > > Run "postfix set-permissions" to correct (except on Debian-like > systems, they broke it so there may be some errors).
It runs without error on current Debian Unstable (I did make some fixes to the Debian packaging to try and avoid this problem). I don't recall if Ubuntu 18.04 has the fixed version or not, but as older Debian (and derivative) releases age out, this should be a declining problem over time. Scott K > > I restarted it nothing happens. > > I reinstalled it many times, but after few hours the emails stop coming > > and > > error creeps in. > > Then you need to find out what keeps changing the Postfix > file permissions. > > Wietse
