> At the moment, I can bring messages in with APOP via fetchmail, which
> apparently delivers them correctly to postfix. But they stall in
> /var/spool/postfix/deferred/, which indicates that postfix can't figure
> out how to deliver the message. I've had it try to deliver to
> lockhart@localhost and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the machine is
> golem.jpl.nasa.gov) with no change. These two addresses show up in the
> /etc/postfix/mail.cf file, and I've tried using the claimed "defaults
> to" mechanism and explicit values. I did get the deferred queue to
> empty once (can't remember how), and the mail then stuck in
> /var/spool/postfix/defer/...
Ah! The problem seems to be due to postfix (or Mandrake) failing to find
/etc/aliases.db.
This seems to be a problem with Mandrake-7.0:
1) it stores the aliases source file in /etc/postfix/aliases
2) has a softlink from /etc/aliases to /etc/postfix/aliases
3) but newaliases writes the output .db file to /etc/aliases.db.
4) postfix is determined to read the aliases.db file from
/etc/postfix/aliases.db
This seems to be independent of the setting for the "alias_maps" value
in main.cf. The file /var/log/maillog helped to diagnose the trouble,
once I noticed that it was there :/
Anyway, I'm up and running, except for my previously mentioned troubles
with a Fujitsu MO640 scsi drive.
- Tom
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Thomas Lockhart
Caltech/JPL
Interferometry Systems and Technology
