Help: Postfix not creating .maildir/

NotExcessive · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 235

I've just installed Postfix version 2.2.10 on a new machine, and can telnet into it, can send mail to the outside world from it.
I created a new user and tried to send mail from the outside world. Mail delivery failure ensues, and looking at the directories in /home/user, there is no .maildir/ anywhere.

I've compiled Postfix with the maildir use flag.

I've read a lot of forum posts but can't find a solution to this apart from making sure you've got the maildir use flag set. I've set the .maildir/ option in main.cf

Any ideas anyone?

magic919 · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:36 am Post subject:

Check your mail logs. Postfix is good at logging.

NotExcessive · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 235

All I got was "unknown mail transport error".

I cleared Postfix off the system and recompiled it. Now it works. Dunno... but I'll leave it alone now as it's delivering mail to a local box.

kashani · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

That error usually shows up when you have something in your config that isn't compiled into Postfix. Or have missing libs. I ran into it this went when I was added sasl to my main.cf and didn't actually compile sasl into Postfix. You can also see it ifi you upgrade Mysql to a new major version, ie 4.0 to 4.1 or 4.1 to 5.0, and don't rebuild Postfix.

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