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I Just upgraded my Mandrake 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0-2.  It came with postfix
instead of sendmail.  I think that I almost have it right but not quite.

I can send mail out from the server but when mail comes in I get a "unknown
mail transport error." and a "malformed response" message.

Here is an example out of my maillog file:

Any Ideas?  Thanks!

Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/master[3336]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/local pid 3428 exit status 1
Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/master[3336]: warning:
/usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/master[3336]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/local pid 3430 exit status 1
Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/master[3336]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/local pid 3431 exit status 1
Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/qmgr[3338]: 2FD763658:

status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)
Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/qmgr[3338]: warning: mail_scan_any: got
EOF; expected: string
Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/qmgr[3338]: warning: private/local:
malformed response
Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/qmgr[3338]: warning: mail_scan_any: got
EOF; expected: string
Feb 13 01:47:44 C287853-A postfix/qmgr[3338]: warning: private/local:
malformed response

: I Just upgraded my Mandrake 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0-2.  It came with postfix
: instead of sendmail.  I think that I almost have it right but not quite.

: I can send mail out from the server but when mail comes in I get a "unknown
: mail transport error." and a "malformed response" message.

: Here is an example out of my maillog file:

: Any Ideas?  Thanks!

You might want to grab the sources from http://www.postfix.org/ and read
the installation documentation.  The installation process isn't all that
difficult, and knowing how the system is set up is a good thing.  If that
fails, there is a postfix-users mailing list where you can get specific
help.

I've seen this before, but I don't recall why - there are archives of the
mailing list pointed to from the Web site.  You might want to do a search.

You can also add some verbosity in /etc/postfix/master.cf for both master
and local and see if that shows any more detailed information.

Paul
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                                                                     PSB#9280

In my case, the newaliases command was updating the /etc/aliases.db
not /etc/postfix/aliases.db.  Since the /etc/postfix/aliases.db didn't
exist, postfix was crashing.  On my system this seemed to work:

mv /etc/postfix/aliases /etc/postfix/aliases.orig
ln -s /etc/aliases /etc/postfix/aliases
ln -s /etc/aliases.db /etc/postfix/aliases.db

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