[MacCoylton]

HI,

I'm trying to configure postix on Panther. I downloaded and installed the latest version. Followed all the Mac OSX specific instructions, the configured it using Webmin. However I can't send any mails.

If i do "telnet localhost smtp" I get

Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
[G4:~] dave%


I've no firewall running.

Also if I check in /var/log/mail.log I see the following

Oct 23 22:07:53 G4 postfix/smtpd[10738]: fatal: unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -v

I've also tried repairing permission on the disk.

Any Ideas ??

Cheers

David

[Gavin]

I'd do a google search on
fatal: unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop

first thing to check is does /usr/sbin/postdrop exist? does it have the right permissions?

did you start postfix as root?


the search should get you mailing list archives that will give you some clues.

[MacCoylton]

Gavin,

Postdrop is there ok :-

G4:~] dave% ls -als /usr/sbin/postdrop
736 -rwxr-sr-x 1 root maildrop 373620 23 Oct 20:01 /usr/sbin/postdrop
[G4:~] dave%


Postfi is started as root :-

G4:~] dave% ps -aux | grep postfix
root 1026 0.0 0.1 18428 468 ?? Ss 12:39PM 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/postfix/master
dave 1093 0.0 0.0 8860 8 std R+ 1:08PM 0:00.00 grep postfix
[G4:~] dave%

Tried doing a google search, but to be honest there's litle out there that's mac specific

Thanks

David

[wulf]

I'm no Unix guru, but I just used this guide to setting up postfix (the default install).

Specifically it says:

So why can't you telnet port 25 on localhost? That's because Apple has commented out the smtp line in the master.cf file. Use BBedit, open /etc/master.cf, look for the smtp line and take out the leading "#" to uncomment the smtp directive.


Then do a "sudo postfix reload" from the command line to activate smtp. Do a "telnet localhost 25". You will find that your Mac will now listen on port 25.

Does that help?

[MacCoylton]

Hi,

thanks for the tip. I did a clean install, and then followed the instructions given. All seem to be working great.

Now for an IMAP server

Cheers

Davdi