On 24 Oct 2009, at 19:21, Wietse Venema wrote:
Rupert Reid:
On 23 Oct 2009, at 11:48, Wietse Venema wrote:
Rupert Reid:
Delivery Status Notification (Failure) = The following message to
<u...@doomain.com> was undeliverable. The reason for the problem:
5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up domain.com
(MX): NXDomain'
That is NOT a POSTFIX error message.
Yes, the above was not a postfix error message (it was added as
additional information), however, the mail.log showed:
"status=bounced (cannot access mailbox /var/mail/domain for user
domain. cannot open file: Permission denied)".
As you can imagine I am not a postfix expert and it is sometimes
difficult to see the wood for the trees. I would be grateful for a
solution or some indication of where I can find a solution. I
consulted "The book of Postfix" and googled the error before
contacting the list.
OK, so post unadulterated evidence to the postfix mailing list.
Thank you for your offer of help. I was able to locate he problem -
for some inexplicable reason the permissions to /var/mail/user was
corrupted (exactly what was written on the tin) - meaning that
postfix could not access the account to deliver incoming mail. I
could not correct the permissions by usual means. I had to remove
the file and reboot postfix, enabling postfix to create a new empty
user file which is now working fine. However, does anyone know how I
might easily copy the contents of the old user file to the new one?
Thanks Rups
