From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 25 17:39:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF56106567C for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:39:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thavinci@thavinci.za.net) Received: from thavinci.za.net (thavinci.za.net [196.211.117.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D308FC12 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:39:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thavinci@thavinci.za.net) Received: from thavinci.za.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thavinci.za.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0119B487 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:39:30 +0200 (SAST) Received: from thavinciPC (unknown [192.168.12.110]) by thavinci.za.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E849B486 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:39:29 +0200 (SAST) From: "Marcel Grandemange" To: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:38:04 +0200 Message-ID: <007b01c906d9$5481c370$fd854a50$@za.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AckG2VQPF7hLRWiWQNSOlTicg1Ns6g== Content-Language: en-us X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Postfix & pop-before-smtp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:39:31 -0000 I don't know if anyone will be able to assist me with this one, but two days ago I decided to redo our mail server. All went well except for one components.. Pop-before-smtp, it seems no matter what I did it would simply cause postfix hassles. Now I know pop-before-smtp is confed correctly as old working config was used... I also know that it DOES create the pop-before-smtp.db file on start if I delete it manually as test. I can also check if there are any ip's in db by doing pop-before-smtp -list. (IT OBVIOUSLY RETURNED NOTHIN) However postfix keeps throwing errors to the following.. Aug 25 15:31:21 thavinci postfix/smtpd[77983]: fatal: open database /usr/local/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db: Invalid argument Aug 25 11:14:49 thavinci postfix/smtpd[88389]: fatal: open database /usr/local/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db: Inappropriate file type or format Aug 25 12:17:11 thavinci postfix/smtpd[40445]: fatal: open database /usr/local/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp.db: Bad file descriptor And that is the correct location and postfix was compile directly from ports with option BDB which I understand is required to read this file. Ive been trying for a day straight trying to resolve this and had to continue without this feature for now to allow mail to run.. At this stage I would worship the ground of anyone that could help me solve this!!!