Ubuntu postfix errot - postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory

Author: Infong Date: 02 Nov 2011 Category: os Comments

I installed postfix and got this error:

postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory.

Turns out that sendmail was previously installed and that was messing things up. I had to stop sendmail and make the appropriate directory and restart postfix.

Specifically:

mkfifo /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup
ps aux | grep mail
kill
sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart

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