I have Postfix installed and Sendmail is not running. I try to send mail using mail but the following warning comes up and the mail doesn't get sent:
postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
This is also confusing me:
[root@ars etc]# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
[root@ars etc]# postfix stop
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Please help! I need this working for Bugzilla.
Try running 'postfix check' to see if it finds any obvious errors which will include incorrect permissions and should point you in the right direction.
See below to resolve the following error:
postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
Run the following command as root:
mkfifo /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup
And then, restart the service :
service postfix restart
Looks like either your /var/spool/postfix directory structure is missing a directory or the permissions are wrong. On CentOS it looks like:
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Jan 5 16:49 active
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Dec 23 16:18 bounce
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Aug 14 2008 corrupt
drwx------ 4 postfix root 4096 Dec 16 08:55 defer
drwx------ 4 postfix root 4096 Dec 16 08:55 deferred
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Aug 14 2008 flush
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Aug 14 2008 hold
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Jan 5 16:49 incoming
drwx-wx--- 2 postfix postdrop 4096 Jan 5 16:49 maildrop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 31 14:16 pid
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Dec 31 14:39 private
drwx--x--- 2 postfix postdrop 4096 Dec 31 14:39 public
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Aug 14 2008 saved
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 Aug 14 2008 trace
Check your /var/log/mail or /var/log/maillog file for error messages. The reason you can't stop postfix is because it's not starting in the first place.
