Folks,

Installed Postfix last night and got it working promptly enough. Very
pleased with the results except that now the SMTP daemon seems to be dying
on me and I don't know why at all. I can't telnet to SMTP and I can't send
mail from 'mail' or Pine or any other simple client on the server. Well,
this is obvious actually since, because the daemon won't even start, there's
nothing to telnet to ... But it was working all right last night and I'd
fixed a number of problems that Sendmail had been giving me intense
migraines over for weeks.

Please, God, someone help. I'm prematurely aging over this.

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"postconf -n" output:

alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = no
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10
local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain
myorigin = $mydomain
sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical
virtual_maps = /etc/postfix/virtual

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"maillog" output:

Feb 1 15:49:24 server1 postfix/smtpd[32227]: fatal: open dictionary: need
"type:name" form: /etc/postfix/virtual
Feb 1 15:49:25 server1 postfix/master[32117]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 32227 exit status 1
Feb 1 15:49:25 server1 postfix/master[32117]: warning:
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

Last lines of /var/log/maillog

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