Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:42:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix problem. Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0807141240470.45844@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <62827.192.168.1.10.1216044471.squirrel@192.168.1.100> References: <2de331130807140558q15fba58et52c04cbed592b6d4@mail.gmail.com> <20080714130145.GC60130@nexus.in-nomine.org> <2de331130807140614g2992f452rd487f2af2c6799ce@mail.gmail.com> <2de331130807140635y78df4e89o34d245a43802de72@mail.gmail.com> <20080714134021.GD60130@nexus.in-nomine.org> <62827.192.168.1.10.1216044471.squirrel@192.168.1.100>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tim Clewlow wrote: > >> Can you please cc: the mailinglist? Thanks. >> >> -On [20080714 15:36], Andres Chavez (fluxboxtremist@gmail.com) >> wrote: >>> postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group maildrop: >>> /usr/sbin/ >>> postdrop >>> >>> postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not >>> owner+group+world >>> executable: /usr/sbin/postdrop >>> >>> postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system. >> >> I would suggest: >> >> 0) clean your system from your botched attempt at installing postfix >> by >> yourself >> 1) read >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html >> 2) install postfix from ports/mail/postfix >> >> And take it from there? >> > > Hi there, > > I have attached the notes I gathered while making the postfix server > that is sending you this mail. In particular, pay attention to the > bit that says: > > As part of the installation the port asks if it could add user > "postfix" to group "mail", I advise answering yes. It also offers to > activate postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf, again answer yes. Not sure what the issue is other than what has already been suggested. However, Postfix can fix permission/owner-ship on its own files by doing: postfix set-permissions -d
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