Package: postfix
Version: 3.0.4-1
Severity: important
Postfix fails to configure on my laptop. dpkg output:
"""
Setting up postfix (3.0.4-1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/postfix ...
Updating dynamicmaps.cf
Postfix configuration was not changed. If you need to make changes, edit
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration
values, see postconf(1).
After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.
Running newaliases
Job for postfix.service failed because the control process exited with error
code. See "systemctl status postfix.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript postfix, action "restart" failed.
"""
Relevant messages from "systemctl status -l postfix":
"""
Feb 23 18:35:23 perpetual systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Postfix Mail Transport
Agent...
Feb 23 18:35:23 perpetual postfix[31404]: Starting Postfix Mail Transport
Agent: postfixmkdir: cannot create directory
‘/var/spool/postfix/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt’: File exists
Feb 23 18:35:23 perpetual systemd[1]: postfix.service: Control process exited,
code=exited status=1
Feb 23 18:35:23 perpetual systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Postfix Mail
Transport Agent.
"""
This is presumably because my Postfix configuration has
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
but the init script seems to assume that the smtp_tls_CAfile will be a
directory?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-5
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58
ii dpkg 1.18.4
ii libc6 2.21-9
ii libdb5.3 5.3.28-11
ii libicu55 55.1-7
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.26.dfsg1-14+b1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.11.0-1
ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2f-2
ii lsb-base 9.20160110
ii netbase 5.3
ii ssl-cert 1.0.37
Versions of packages postfix recommends:
ii python3 3.5.1-2
Versions of packages postfix suggests:
ii bsd-mailx [mail-reader] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-2
pn dovecot-common <none>
ii evolution [mail-reader] 3.18.5-1
ii icedove [mail-reader] 38.6.0-1
ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.26.dfsg1-14+b1
ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.5.24-1+b1
pn postfix-cdb <none>
ii postfix-doc 3.0.4-1
pn postfix-ldap <none>
pn postfix-mysql <none>
pn postfix-pcre <none>
pn postfix-pgsql <none>
pn procmail <none>
ii resolvconf 1.78
pn sasl2-bin <none>
pn ufw <none>
-- debconf information excluded
