postifx fatal errors

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  1. ptalindstrom

    ptalindstrom New Member

    Ever since setting up the Virtual Users and Domains from the tutorial here i now have my /var/log/mail.err file flooded with errors like:

    Jan 4 00:37:48 planetdrupal postfix/qmgr[18045]: fatal: qmgr_active_defer: rename 3F055C22804 from active to deferred: Permission denied

    although mail seems to be working more or less ok.

    any thoughts?
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Do you always have the user planetdrupal in the error messages, or are there also other users?
     
  3. ptalindstrom

    ptalindstrom New Member

    not a user

    planetdrupal is not a user.. hmmm, i suspect a clue...

    planetdrupal.ca is the primary domain on this server, but most of the mail activity is from another domain

    errors occur at random time intervals but approx 1-3 / min
     
  4. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    What's the output of
    Code:
    ls -la /var/spool/postfix
    ?
     
  5. ptalindstrom

    ptalindstrom New Member

    planetdrupal:~# ls -la /var/spool/postfix
    total 192
    drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Dec 19 00:57 .
    drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 15 18:38 ..
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 65536 Feb 23 01:58 active
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Feb 22 17:45 bounce
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Jul 16 2007 corrupt
    drwx------ 18 postfix root 4096 Oct 8 23:16 def-moved
    drwx------ 18 postfix root 4096 Oct 8 23:16 defer
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 19 00:57 deferred
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 01:34 etc
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Dec 15 18:38 flush
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Jul 16 2007 hold
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 45056 Feb 23 01:58 incoming
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 01:34 lib
    drwx-wx--T 2 postfix postdrop 4096 Feb 22 20:54 maildrop
    drwxr-xr-x 2 postfix root 4096 Dec 18 02:45 pid
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Jan 14 01:34 private
    -rw------- 1 root root 1024 Feb 23 01:44 prng_exch
    drwx--s--- 2 postfix postdrop 4096 Jan 14 01:34 public
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Jul 16 2007 saved
    drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Jul 16 2007 trace
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 16 2007 usr
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 15 20:33 var
     
  6. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Try this:
    Code:
    chown postfix /var/spool/postfix/deferred
     
  7. ptalindstrom

    ptalindstrom New Member

    seems to have fixed things...

    thank you for all your help.. :)
     

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