On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:04:49AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > >> Also which postdrop is reporting errors? Is there more than one "postdrop" >> on the system? More than one Postfix-related sendmail(1) with a different >> default config directory? ... > > There is not one running that I see. Our install process specifically > disables the system postfix installation as well.
The postdrop(1) helper utility is not a long-running process. It is invoked (briefly) via sendmail(1) to deposit proto-messages into the maildrop queue. If you also have a "system postfix", with a default configuration directory of /etc/postfix, and someone runs *that* sendmail(1), it will launch the corresponding postdrop(1), which will try to use the standard /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup socket, and will fail to find it. You may also have some mail waiting in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop/. Please give the "system postfix" a non-default "syslog_name", or otherwise figure out which postdrop(1) is complaining. -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.