Removed Citadel and installed Postfix, Postfix acting funny??

Mr. C. · 10-07-2008, 04:39 PM

Remove both Sendmail (the MTA) and Postfix (the MTA) and then reinstall only Postfix.

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 04:42 PM

Ok reinstalled Postfix I hope it's working now??

Answer to your question:

Code:

postmap -q kayasaman hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: No such file or directory

This might be the issue

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 04:44 PM

hmm that's odd;

I ran the same command on the working server and it came up with the same thing?? as in:

Code:

postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: No such file or directory

billymayday · 10-07-2008, 04:44 PM

Edit - reposted.

Just use "newaliases"

You alias file is in /etc, not /etc/postfix, and you don't postmap the .db

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 04:47 PM

ok well:

Code:

postmap -q kayasaman hash:/etc/aliases

returned nothing on both machines, (healthy and working) and (unhealthy and botched)

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 04:48 PM

main.cf file looks ok

Code:

# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version


# Debian specific:  Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name.  The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no

# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache

# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.

myhostname = gx110.optiplex-networks.com
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = gx110.optiplex-networks.com, localhost.optiplex-networks.com, localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.1
#mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
home_mailbox = Maildir/
#content_filter = amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
receive_override_options = no_address_mappings
#inet_protocols = all
inet_protocols = all

however

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 04:54 PM

I found a package in my /usr/sbin called sensible-mda, I have no idea what it is or how it got there but I don't have it on my other machine so I removed and am gona see what the result of that is; if it was effecting Postfix in someway

billymayday · 10-07-2008, 04:58 PM

The command would be "postmap /etc/aliases", but you can just use "newaliases"

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 04:59 PM

I just had a go at seeing if I could remove postfix to re-install it later; however postfix seems to be tied into the system like crazy??

Code:

# apt-get remove postfix
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  amavisd-new backuppc courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-pop
  courier-pop-ssl iwatch logcheck mailx mutt postfix postfix-mysql

logcheck and backuppc have nothing to do with Postfix??

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 05:01 PM

Tried postmap /etc/aliases and result was same on both machines, so I'm guessing it doesn't have any significance.

Code:

postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 2: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 3: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 4: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 5: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 6: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 7: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 8: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 9: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 10: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 11: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 12: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 13: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 14: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 15: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 16: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 17: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?

I am just trying to compare commands between healthy and unhealthy system so that if any difference is detected I can look as to why!

billymayday · 10-07-2008, 05:07 PM

Do you have the newaliases command?

postmap is not for alaises - the postfix specific equivalent is "postallias"

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 05:15 PM

I typed in newaliases on both machines and it returned nothing each time?

billymayday · 10-07-2008, 05:17 PM

See post 26. newaliases is a sendmail package command that works for me because sendmail is installed by default in CentOS

Use "postalias /etc/aliases"

kayasaman · 10-07-2008, 05:26 PM

Quote:

because sendmail is installed by default in CentOS

It's the same for Debian I think you know from your Debian box. However something seems to be very wrong somewhere!

I tried using the command:

Code:

postalias /etc/aliases

and it did something, however the system still doesn't work. Maybe it's as Mr C. suggested that the sendmail is mangled??

But how to fix it since apt-get install sendmail installs the MTA and that's not what we want, maybe is it sendmail-cf?? As there is a package like that?

billymayday · 10-07-2008, 05:34 PM

I believe postfix installs a "sendmail" binary because many packages expect one there by default. Don't confuse this with the full sendmail MTA. You don't want to install that.

The mail command is a case in point - it uses sendmail. Postfix simply foils it into thinking it's using the original sendmail package when in fact it isn't.

You will note there is a new /etc/aliases.db file now.

What do you mean the system still doesn't work?