On 2/1/2012 9:51 PM, Ctdi Unix wrote: > So this much is reproducible - remember pickup is commented out in master.cf > > remove sendmail rpm. > send email from commandline - no trace in maillog and mail goes into > deferred queue.
Because pickup is commented out. > > install sendmail rpm > send email from commandline - pretty log entries in the maillog and > mail goes out - no problem. Because postfix is no longer handling local mail. You might notice that those pretty log entries for local mail have no mention of "postfix" in them. This may (or may not) cause other unusual problems as postfix and sendmail wrestle for control. > > remove sendmail rpm. > send email from commandline - no trace in maillog and mail goes into > deferred queue. Because pickup is commented out. > > And yes I did try and put pickup back, but then I have some sort of > mail loop. I think tied to my custom content filter and it's > configuration. My crystal ball is at the cleaners, so my wild guess is you need to disable your content filter on the pickup interface by adding "-o content_filter=" to the pickup entry in master.cf. Please read the fine manual. http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html If you need more help, please see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail -- Noel Jones
