This error was reported to me by a FreeBSD user, but I cannot reproduce it on any of my development machines. It occurs during build (sorry for line wraps):
rm -f ../../conf/main.cf.default cp postconf ../../bin (echo "# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. EDIT THE MAIN.CF FILE INSTEAD. THE"; echo "# TEXT HERE JUST SHOWS DEFAULT SETTINGS BUILT INTO POSTFIX."; echo "#"; ./postconf -d) |egrep -v '^(myhostname|mydomain|mynetworks) ' >../../conf/main.cf.default ./postconf: fatal: socket: Protocol not supported ... the full log is also available[1]. This is snapshot 20111012. FWIW, this issue was recently discussed[2] on a FreeBSD mailing list. There is something particular about the machine (to which I do not have access) on which the build fails. Has anyone seen similar socket errors via postconf? My next step is to solicit access to the problematic machine and troubleshoot further. [1] http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-errorlogs/e.8.20111103071512/postfix-current-2.9.20111012,4.log [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-November/071419.html -- Sahil Tandon
