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Postfix on Solaris
\ William Taylor (16 Apr 2007)
. \ Noel Jones (16 Apr 2007)
. \ Magnus Bäck (16 Apr 2007)
. \ mouss (17 Apr 2007)

Subject:	Re: Postfix on Solaris
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	17 Apr 2007

William Taylor wrote:
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> Just compiled postfix 2.4.0 on Solaris 10 SPARC.
> Postfix seems to start up correctly how ever when you try telneting to
> part 25 it just sits there like:
> telnet 192.168.1.1 25
> Trying 192.168.1.1...
> Connected to 192.168.1.1.
> Escape character is '^
>
> Then this is what I get in my log file:
>
> Apr 16 13:47:16 smtp postfix/smtpd[5409]: [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal:
> open database /etc/mail/aliases.dir: No such file or directory
> Apr 16 13:47:16 smtp postfix/smtpd[5409]: [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal:
> open database /etc/mail/aliases.dir: No such file or directory
> Apr 16 13:47:17 smtp postfix/master[5405]: [ID 947731 mail.warning]
> warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 5409 exit status 1
> Apr 16 13:47:17 smtp postfix/master[5405]: [ID 947731 mail.warning]
> warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> Don't really know what to do from here. Where is it getting
> "/etc/mail/aliases.dir" from? It's not an any of the config files.
>

# postconf -e alias_maps=

or

# ln -s /etc/postfix/aliases /etc && newaliases