From: Solar Designer (solaropenwall.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 11:54:37 CST

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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:47:16PM +0100, Maciek Pasternacki wrote:
> I use Owl with qmail as MTA, so I don't need Postfix on my system;
> when I try to uninstall Postfix, rpm script quits with an error
> message:
>
> rmdir: `/var/spool/postfix/[^m]*': No such file or directory
>
> When I create any subdirectory under /var/spool/postfix not starting
> with `m', everything works fine, but IMHO this is a bug in Postfix'
> preun script.

Thank you for reporting this. However, I cannot reproduce it here.

Those directories are normally created by the invocation of
"/usr/sbin/postfix check" from the %post script. This means that if
you've installed Postfix cleanly and didn't mess with the install, it
will also uninstall cleanly. It does here.

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