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

Posted by Wes in
David Merrick says:
Thanks so much! I unknowingly had sendmail and postfix running together and it’s been a frustrating couple hours trying to figure out why mail wasn’t sending!
For those with the same problem who come across this, be sure and do “kill [process number]” when running the commands above.
Arnau says:
Thank you so much too! :)
AstroMan says:
Thanks, this helped.
praneeth hettiarachchi says:
Thanks so much! saved my day!!
Martin says:
Thanks a lot for this hint. Put it into my own IT blog with link to this page so I will not forget again……
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Jason says:
GOLDEN!!
Thanks
Pedrog says:
Excelent!! it works super!! Thank you very much
Dafydd says:
Thanks, this worked great!