Bug 527124

Summary:	Postfix does not deliver mail; errors on console and in maillog (missing pickup fifo)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Derek Atkins <warlord>
Component:	postfix	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	djo, mlichvar, twoerner
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	157811	Environment:
Last Closed:	2009-12-18 09:43:59 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Derek Atkins 2009-10-04 19:15:46 UTC

I'm seeing this in Fedora 10.
postfix-2.5.6-1.fc10.i386

The problem is that /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup does not exist
Running:  mkfifo /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup fixes the problem.

Original bug report listed below:

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #157811 +++

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050509 Fedora/1.0.3-5 Firefox/1.0.3

Description of problem:
[djo@peanut ~]$ mail djo
Subject: test message
This is a test.
Cc:
[djo@peanut ~]$ postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory

(and the mail is never delivered)

[root@peanut djo]# cat /var/log/maillog
May 15 09:04:22 peanut postfix/postdrop[19447]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
May 16 02:26:54 peanut postfix/postdrop[10125]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
May 16 02:27:36 peanut postfix/postdrop[10138]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
May 16 02:28:19 peanut postfix/postdrop[10151]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
May 16 02:28:38 peanut postfix/postdrop[10173]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
May 16 02:30:50 peanut postfix/postdrop[10242]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
May 16 02:55:10 peanut postfix/postdrop[11116]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
[root@peanut djo]#



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
postfix-2.2.2-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Exact commands given in Description.

When I installed FC4-test3, I explicitly removed exim and added Postfix in the installer.  I did *not* install exim, then remove it and install Postfix, or install both and then remove exim or anything like that.


Actual Results:  See above.  Note also that the sent email is not bounced (the bounce couldn't be delivered) so the email is just lost.

Expected Results:  The mail should have been delivered.

Additional info:

--- Additional comment from twoerner on 2005-06-21 06:14:30 EDT ---

Please run a rpm install test of the postfix package with "rpm -V postfix".

If there are no errors (output), then check if postfix is activated with
"alternatives --config mta".



--- Additional comment from twoerner on 2005-09-30 12:06:48 EDT ---

Closing due to user inactivity as NOTABUG.

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