Summary: Postfix on Solaris does not send to local users

Hi all,

thanks a lot for all your replies (about twenty). I found that it is a 
very good idea to completly remove sendmail from the system before 
installing postfix. Both systems are supposed to work together but ...

After installing postfix and creating a user postfix and a group 
postdrop I created a file /etc/mail/aliases with the following contents:

	Postmaster: root
	postfix: root
	root: <my login name>

and run newaliases. This created aliases.dir and fixed the problem.

Regards,

    Andreas


> I went to www.postfix.org and got the sources. I have postfix running
> and am able to send mail to external email addresses but sending mails
> locally fails.
>
> # mail ahoesch
> test
> .
> #
>
> The mail remains in the queue and I get the following in 
> /var/log/syslog.
>
> Jun 10 20:36:30 neptun postfix/pickup[4812]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
> 6528259AAF: uid=0 from=<root>
> Jun 10 20:36:30 neptun postfix/cleanup[4817]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
> 6528259AAF: message-id=<20020610183630.6528259AAF@neptun.smartsoft.de>
> Jun 10 20:36:30 neptun postfix/qmgr[4813]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
> 6528259AAF: from=<root@smartsoft.de>, size=329, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jun 10 20:36:30 neptun postfix/local[4819]: [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal:
> open database /etc/mail/aliases.dir: No such file or directory
> Jun 10 20:36:31 neptun postfix/qmgr[4813]: [ID 947731 mail.warning]
> warning: premature end-of-input from private/local socket while reading
> input attribute name
> Jun 10 20:36:31 neptun postfix/qmgr[4813]: [ID 947731 mail.warning]
> warning: private/local socket: malformed response
> Jun 10 20:36:31 neptun postfix/qmgr[4813]: [ID 947731 mail.warning]
> warning: transport local failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic
> logfile record for the problem description
> Jun 10 20:36:31 neptun postfix/master[4811]: [ID 947731 mail.warning]
> warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 4819 exit status 1
> Jun 10 20:36:31 neptun postfix/master[4811]: [ID 947731 mail.warning]
> warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> What does "fatal: open database /etc/mail/aliases.dir: No such file or
> directory" mean? This is not covered in the FAQ.
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