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

Posted Posted by Wes in Sysadmin     Comments 1 comment
Dec
2

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

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

  • June 29, 2010 at 5:23 am
    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.

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