I'm having trouble starting Postfix on an Ubuntu 14.04 installation.
The full error message when running 'postfix check' is as follows...
/usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: invalid type field "flags=DRhu" in "??
flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f
${sender} -d ${recipient}"
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: cannot execute /usr/sbin/postconf!
I am (obviously) using Postfix with dovecot and that has started
properly and appears to be working although messages are 'deferred'
due to Postfix not working properly.
The last lines of master.cf look like this...
#
# Other external delivery methods.
#
ifmail unix - n n - - pipe
flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient)
bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -t$nexthop -f$sender $recipient
scalemail-backend unix - n n - 2 pipe
flags=R user=scalemail argv=/usr/lib/scalemail/bin/scalemail-store
${nexthop} ${user} ${extension}
mailman unix - n n - - pipe
flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
${nexthop} ${user}
dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f
${sender} -d ${recipient}
The only line I have added from the 'default' file is the two lines at
the end. I have checked carefully and the second line seems properly
indented etc. and furthermore it is the same as another installation
on the same platform that works.
The mail.err log just has lines like this...
Mar 4 13:04:28 mailx postfix/postfix-script[16767]: fatal: cannot
execute /usr/sbin/postconf!
I've almost certainly done something stupid but I can't think how to proceed.
Thoughts much appreciated.
