At 03:11 PM 9/10/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I had a similar sounding problem. My solution was to chmod 1777
>/var/spool/mail.

Good grief! Is there no more secure manner than that?
BenO

>Here is the message I was getting in the bounced (returned) email:
>
><conancrcallen.com>: can't create user output file. Command output:
>procmail:
> Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/conan" procmail: Lock failure on
> "/var/spool/mail/conan.lock" procmail: Error while writing to
> "/var/spool/mail/conan"
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ben Ocean" <linuxthewebsons.com>
>To: <postfix-userspostfix.org>
>Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:24 PM
>Subject: Re: Problem Install
>
>
> > I did what you advised. Unfortunately, no mail gets through to me. I run
> > the command egrep '(reject|warning|error|fatal|panic):' /var/log/maillog
> > and get no (new) information. (Initially, postfix complained because of
> > biff_notify and NIS domain lookup disabled, but I fixed those problems.) I
> > sense that the problem has to do with postfix not reading my virtusertable
> > file, because it keeps bouncing legitimate email (although I am by no
>means
> > certain that it bounces *all* email, I do see evidence that some is
> > bounced). Without any feedback in my log files, we don't have much to go
>on
> > :( Any ideas?
> > TIA,
> > BenO
> >
> > At 07:56 AM 9/10/01 +0000, you wrote:
> > >On 9 Sep 2001 21:56:02 +0200, Ben Ocean <linuxthewebsons.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sep 9 12:47:10 thewebsons sendmail[29757]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> > > opendaemonsoc
> > > > ket: cannot bind: Address already in use
> > >
> > >This is sendmail, not Postfix.
> > >
> > > > Sep 9 12:47:10 thewebsons sendmail[29757]: problem creating SMTP
>socket
> > >
> > >This is sendmail, not Postfix.
> > >
> > > > Sep 9 12:47:10 thewebsons postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail
> > > system
> > > > Sep 9 12:47:10 thewebsons postfix/master[29193]: reload configuration
> > > >
> > > > I guess I need to bind postfix to a different port? Please advise.
> > >
> > >Turn off sendmail, turn off Postfix, start Postfix.
> > >
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