On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Jamal Mubarak <jmubar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have postfix installed and configured on my Mac OS 10.6.3 machines.  It 
> works correctly because the unix mail program works fine and sendmail 
> interface can send emails as well.  However, I encounter this strange 
> problem.  The printing commands, lpr and lp, have the -m switch which sends 
> an e-mail on completion of a print job.  This email is not delivered and in 
> /var/log/mail.log I see the following error:
>
> May  7 00:00:04 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[6309]: fatal: execvp 
> /usr/sbin/postdrop: Operation not permitted
> May  7 00:00:05 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[6308]: warning: command 
> "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1
> May  7 00:00:05 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[6308]: fatal: _lp(26): unable to 
> execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Unknown error: 0
>
> Can someone give me a clue as to what is wrong?  Funny thing is that 
> sometimes it starts working on its own and then stops again.
>

Show permissions of /usr/sbin/postdrop and /usr/sbin/sendmail. lpr/lp
process owner have rights to exec this commands?


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