On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> I've just installed Mandrake 7.0 and have discovered that users cannot
> receive email -- not even from other users on the same machine.  The
> directory /var/spool/mail/ remains empty and undelivered mail piles up in
> /var/spool/postfix/deferred. The command qmail -v gives an "unknown mail
> transport error" for each piece of undelivered mail. The postfix
> documentation leads me to believe that it should work out of the box for
> my simple system (single-user connected to the network by ethernet) with
> no additional configuration.
> 
> I would be very grateful for any ideas about what to do.
> 
>               Joe
> 
>

I've seen this happen when both postfix and sendmail rpm's were
installed.  My suggestion would be to remove both postfix and sendmail
rpm's, then reinstall postfix.  Your problem should clear. 

-- 
Rich Clark

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