Setting up Postfix on Ubuntu 16.04
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP
up vote
0
down vote
favorite
I am following this tutorial from Digital Ocean and trying to configre Postfix to work properly, so far without success.
It all goes well until I try to list the directoryls -R ~/Maildir
I get this error ls: cannot access '/home/petar/Maildir': No such file or directory
I tried manually creating the directory /home/petar/Maildir
However no directory structure is never created.
There are not folders - cur, tmp or new inside.
linux ubuntu postfix
asked May 17 at 14:56
nikksan
104
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
favorite
I am following this tutorial from Digital Ocean and trying to configre Postfix to work properly, so far without success.
It all goes well until I try to list the directoryls -R ~/Maildir
I get this error ls: cannot access '/home/petar/Maildir': No such file or directory
I tried manually creating the directory /home/petar/Maildir
However no directory structure is never created.
There are not folders - cur, tmp or new inside.
linux ubuntu postfix
asked May 17 at 14:56
nikksan
104
1
It won't create directories until you actually receive mail messages. This applies for the older-stylemboxwhere the mailbox file is not created until the system needs it (to hold mail messages). Check/var/log/mail.logto determine what's going on, and see if there's some other errors with mail delivery. Note that Maildir folders won't be made until you receive mail, so if mail receiving is a problem and it's not working properly you won't get any maildir folders.
– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:08
1
Also, you need to setmailbox_command =in the Postfix config so it doesn't use procmail anymore for delivery (and yes, it's supposed to be equal to nothing)
– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:20
1
I added the line you suggested, then I restarted the postfix usingsudo killall sendmail-mta sudo service postfix restartand now it is all working fine!
– nikksan
May 18 at 6:53
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
favorite
up vote
0
down vote
favorite
I am following this tutorial from Digital Ocean and trying to configre Postfix to work properly, so far without success.
It all goes well until I try to list the directoryls -R ~/Maildir
I get this error ls: cannot access '/home/petar/Maildir': No such file or directory
I tried manually creating the directory /home/petar/Maildir
However no directory structure is never created.
There are not folders - cur, tmp or new inside.
linux ubuntu postfix
asked May 17 at 14:56
nikksan
104
I am following this tutorial from Digital Ocean and trying to configre Postfix to work properly, so far without success.
It all goes well until I try to list the directoryls -R ~/Maildir
I get this error ls: cannot access '/home/petar/Maildir': No such file or directory
I tried manually creating the directory /home/petar/Maildir
However no directory structure is never created.
There are not folders - cur, tmp or new inside.
linux ubuntu postfix
asked May 17 at 14:56
nikksan
104
asked May 17 at 14:56
nikksan
104
asked May 17 at 14:56
nikksan
104
asked May 17 at 14:56
nikksan
104
104
1
It won't create directories until you actually receive mail messages. This applies for the older-stylemboxwhere the mailbox file is not created until the system needs it (to hold mail messages). Check/var/log/mail.logto determine what's going on, and see if there's some other errors with mail delivery. Note that Maildir folders won't be made until you receive mail, so if mail receiving is a problem and it's not working properly you won't get any maildir folders.
– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:08
1
Also, you need to setmailbox_command =in the Postfix config so it doesn't use procmail anymore for delivery (and yes, it's supposed to be equal to nothing)
– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:20
1
I added the line you suggested, then I restarted the postfix usingsudo killall sendmail-mta sudo service postfix restartand now it is all working fine!
– nikksan
May 18 at 6:53
add a comment |Â
1
It won't create directories until you actually receive mail messages. This applies for the older-stylemboxwhere the mailbox file is not created until the system needs it (to hold mail messages). Check/var/log/mail.logto determine what's going on, and see if there's some other errors with mail delivery. Note that Maildir folders won't be made until you receive mail, so if mail receiving is a problem and it's not working properly you won't get any maildir folders.
– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:08
1
Also, you need to setmailbox_command =in the Postfix config so it doesn't use procmail anymore for delivery (and yes, it's supposed to be equal to nothing)
– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:20
1
I added the line you suggested, then I restarted the postfix usingsudo killall sendmail-mta sudo service postfix restartand now it is all working fine!
– nikksan
May 18 at 6:53
1
1
It won't create directories until you actually receive mail messages. This applies for the older-style
mbox where the mailbox file is not created until the system needs it (to hold mail messages). Check /var/log/mail.log to determine what's going on, and see if there's some other errors with mail delivery. Note that Maildir folders won't be made until you receive mail, so if mail receiving is a problem and it's not working properly you won't get any maildir folders.– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:08
It won't create directories until you actually receive mail messages. This applies for the older-style
mbox where the mailbox file is not created until the system needs it (to hold mail messages). Check /var/log/mail.log to determine what's going on, and see if there's some other errors with mail delivery. Note that Maildir folders won't be made until you receive mail, so if mail receiving is a problem and it's not working properly you won't get any maildir folders.– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:08
1
1
Also, you need to set
mailbox_command = in the Postfix config so it doesn't use procmail anymore for delivery (and yes, it's supposed to be equal to nothing)– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:20
Also, you need to set
mailbox_command = in the Postfix config so it doesn't use procmail anymore for delivery (and yes, it's supposed to be equal to nothing)– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:20
1
1
I added the line you suggested, then I restarted the postfix using
sudo killall sendmail-mta sudo service postfix restart and now it is all working fine!– nikksan
May 18 at 6:53
I added the line you suggested, then I restarted the postfix using
sudo killall sendmail-mta sudo service postfix restart and now it is all working fine!– nikksan
May 18 at 6:53
add a comment |Â
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
up vote
2
down vote
What the Digital Ocean tutorial doesn't touch upon is eliminating the default procmail from being used. However, thankfully the Ubuntu Wiki documentation on a basic postfix setup does touch upon it.
Postfix by default uses procmail for local user delivery. Unfortunately, procmail supports old-style mbox and not Maildir. We need to tell Postfix to not use procmail.
Your Postfix configuration needs to have the following two lines to properly use Maildir with Postfix:
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mailbox_command =
The mailbox_command directive is intentionally set equal to nothing.
Once this is set, you can simply do sudo systemctl restart postfix (or the more traditional sudo service postfix restart method, which calls the aforementioned systemctl command). You should then have Maildir working properly.
answered May 18 at 12:29
Thomas Ward
1,3182927
add a comment |Â
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
up vote
2
down vote
What the Digital Ocean tutorial doesn't touch upon is eliminating the default procmail from being used. However, thankfully the Ubuntu Wiki documentation on a basic postfix setup does touch upon it.
Postfix by default uses procmail for local user delivery. Unfortunately, procmail supports old-style mbox and not Maildir. We need to tell Postfix to not use procmail.
Your Postfix configuration needs to have the following two lines to properly use Maildir with Postfix:
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mailbox_command =
The mailbox_command directive is intentionally set equal to nothing.
Once this is set, you can simply do sudo systemctl restart postfix (or the more traditional sudo service postfix restart method, which calls the aforementioned systemctl command). You should then have Maildir working properly.
answered May 18 at 12:29
Thomas Ward
1,3182927
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
What the Digital Ocean tutorial doesn't touch upon is eliminating the default procmail from being used. However, thankfully the Ubuntu Wiki documentation on a basic postfix setup does touch upon it.
Postfix by default uses procmail for local user delivery. Unfortunately, procmail supports old-style mbox and not Maildir. We need to tell Postfix to not use procmail.
Your Postfix configuration needs to have the following two lines to properly use Maildir with Postfix:
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mailbox_command =
The mailbox_command directive is intentionally set equal to nothing.
Once this is set, you can simply do sudo systemctl restart postfix (or the more traditional sudo service postfix restart method, which calls the aforementioned systemctl command). You should then have Maildir working properly.
answered May 18 at 12:29
Thomas Ward
1,3182927
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
2
down vote
What the Digital Ocean tutorial doesn't touch upon is eliminating the default procmail from being used. However, thankfully the Ubuntu Wiki documentation on a basic postfix setup does touch upon it.
Postfix by default uses procmail for local user delivery. Unfortunately, procmail supports old-style mbox and not Maildir. We need to tell Postfix to not use procmail.
Your Postfix configuration needs to have the following two lines to properly use Maildir with Postfix:
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mailbox_command =
The mailbox_command directive is intentionally set equal to nothing.
Once this is set, you can simply do sudo systemctl restart postfix (or the more traditional sudo service postfix restart method, which calls the aforementioned systemctl command). You should then have Maildir working properly.
answered May 18 at 12:29
Thomas Ward
1,3182927
What the Digital Ocean tutorial doesn't touch upon is eliminating the default procmail from being used. However, thankfully the Ubuntu Wiki documentation on a basic postfix setup does touch upon it.
Postfix by default uses procmail for local user delivery. Unfortunately, procmail supports old-style mbox and not Maildir. We need to tell Postfix to not use procmail.
Your Postfix configuration needs to have the following two lines to properly use Maildir with Postfix:
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mailbox_command =
The mailbox_command directive is intentionally set equal to nothing.
Once this is set, you can simply do sudo systemctl restart postfix (or the more traditional sudo service postfix restart method, which calls the aforementioned systemctl command). You should then have Maildir working properly.
answered May 18 at 12:29
Thomas Ward
1,3182927
edited May 18 at 16:05
answered May 18 at 12:29
Thomas Ward
1,3182927
answered May 18 at 12:29
Thomas Ward
1,3182927
answered May 18 at 12:29
Thomas Ward
1,3182927
1,3182927
add a comment |Â
add a comment |Â
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2funix.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f444395%2fsetting-up-postfix-on-ubuntu-16-04%23new-answer', 'question_page');
);
Post as a guest
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
1
It won't create directories until you actually receive mail messages. This applies for the older-style
mboxwhere the mailbox file is not created until the system needs it (to hold mail messages). Check/var/log/mail.logto determine what's going on, and see if there's some other errors with mail delivery. Note that Maildir folders won't be made until you receive mail, so if mail receiving is a problem and it's not working properly you won't get any maildir folders.– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:08
1
Also, you need to set
mailbox_command =in the Postfix config so it doesn't use procmail anymore for delivery (and yes, it's supposed to be equal to nothing)– Thomas Ward
May 17 at 15:20
1
I added the line you suggested, then I restarted the postfix using
sudo killall sendmail-mta sudo service postfix restartand now it is all working fine!– nikksan
May 18 at 6:53