Check to see what the permissions are on /var/spool/mail/postfix. Though, really, you should probably have 'postfix' aliased to a real user.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Peter Skensved wrote: > I'm considering migrating from sendmail to postfix but I have run into > something which looks like a permission problem. I followed the directions > in the RedHat postfix HOWTO, stopped sendmail, started postfix and sent > mail to the machine. However, it bounces telling me that : > > > Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Action: failed > Status: 5.0.0 > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; can't create user output file. Command output: > procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/postfix" > > > /var/spool/mail is currently owned by root:mail with permissions 775 > > Do I just change the ownership to postfix ?? And group what ? mail ? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
