On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:49:03AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> Don't forget that sendmail(1) is outside the persistent master-managed
>> Postfix service and can en-queue mail (to disk) for later delivery, even
>> when Postfix is *not* running (provided it does run eventually...).
>
> Yeah, cron is calling the system sendmail, which is what is generating the
> mail in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop. For some reason, this particular
> system has nothing under /var/spool/postfix/public. I created a pickup
> FIFO and set the ownership/group accordingly, and now that error no longer
> shows.
The solution is not to manually create FIFOs. Rather, you should either
run a second Postfix service, or replace the system sendmail(1) with
a symlink to the custom-built binary.
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Viktor.
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