Victor Duchovni: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:53:17PM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:49:03AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > > > >> Don't forget that sendmail(1) is outside the persistent master-managed > > >> Postfix service and can en-queue mail (to disk) for later delivery, even > > >> when Postfix is *not* running (provided it does run eventually...). > > > > > > Yeah, cron is calling the system sendmail, which is what is generating > > > the > > > mail in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop. For some reason, this particular > > > system has nothing under /var/spool/postfix/public. I created a pickup > > > FIFO and set the ownership/group accordingly, and now that error no > > > longer > > > shows. > > > > The solution is not to manually create FIFOs. Rather, you should either > > run a second Postfix service, or replace the system sendmail(1) with > > a symlink to the custom-built binary. > > I should also mention, that you could simply change the queue_directory > setting in the otherwise disused default /etc/postfix/main.cf, and then > the system "postdrop" will queue mail into your zimbra installation.
Better symlink the system sendmail to the "running" Postfix. I would not recommend mixing sendmail/postdrop programs from a newer Postfix release with the pickup daemon from an older Postfix release. The other way around is rarely a problem as newer software has to understand the queue file produced by older software. Wietse